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Show to offer ‘Behind The Tanks’ and ‘101 Ways To Display Shells’ By SHELL CLUB - | Feb 12, 2021 PHOTO PROVIDED The Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club’s 2021 Virtual Sanibel Shell Show will premiere on March 5-6 from noon to 3 p.m. on the club’s YouTube channel. The free show will feature more than 35 original video vignettes, a photo contest and door prizes and offer something to entertain and educate every interest. One video will guide viewers “Behind the Tanks” at the Bailey-Matthe...

Shell club awards grant to USF professor By SHELL CLUB - | Jan 21, 2021 PHOTO PROVIDED Dr. Greg Herbert The Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club’s board approved a $2,500 grant in late 2020 for Dr. Greg Herbert, with the University of South Florida. Preliminary data from surveys of mollusk populations taken from 300 sample stations in the eastern Gulf of Mexico suggests that the Florida fighting conch has lost as much as half of its former habitat. Herbert’s project will radiocarbon date some of the...