Table 1 Substrate/habitat categories used in characterizing the sites surveyed and number and proportion of identified conch

DSGH

Coarse sand bottom dominated by seagrass Thalassia spp. and Syringodium spp.

Conservation zone

A: 69 (9.96%)

J: 483 (69.7%)

SFH

Coarse sand bottom without seagrass cover

General use zone

J: 127 (18.33%)

SSGH

Coarse sand bottom with sparse seagrass cover by Thalassia spp. and Syringodium spp.

General use zone

A: 14 (2.02%)