In the pristine waters north of Broome in Western Australia, lives a snail with a highly valuable shell. It's called a trochus shell, and its mother of pearl qualities have been treasured for ...

After literally breaking his back working on a tug boat at Hay Point in July 1987 Hill's tale begins with him looking for a new line of work to support his wife Barbara and their two children, Karl ...

Members of Italy's fashion industry are proposing a joint venture with a Kimberley Aboriginal community in northern Western Australia to increase its production of trochus shell. The group yesterday ...

Samoa is the latest country to successfully develop a new trochus (Tectus niloticus) fishery. On learning of the successful introduction of the species in Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall ...

IN vol. 4, pt. 1 of the Report of the Great Barrier Reef Committee (Brisbane: Government Printer), Mr. F. W. Moorhouse deals with products of economic importance-green turtle, Trochus and sponges. His ...

This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see. This specimen is a Commercial Trochus shell. Rochia ...

A complete shell fish hook from the Pleistocene levels of a cave site at the east end of Timor. This hook is made on Trochus shell and is dated to ~11,000 cal years BP. This image relates to a paper ...

Fisheries Department compliance officer Michael Kelly said a tip-off from a member of the public led to the discovery of 488 abalone and 269 trochus shells in the possession of three people. Of the ...