Chances are you have if you live near Monterey Bay, which in the 1920s provided some 75 percent of California’s abalone ...

A vibrant sunset is reflected in the San Lorenzo River in downtown Santa Cruz on a recent evening as a Metro bus crosses the ...

White abalone have the bad luck of being known as the most tender and delicious, and in the 1970s they were fished nearly to extinction. Today, diving for wild abalone is prohibited in California.

Abalone are strictly vegetarians, feeding only on certain kinds of kelp. Abalone are grown successfully in Japan, Staton said, and a number of experiments have been made in this country.

Abalone is a particularly difficult species to manage because they take a decade or more to mature. “It’s a really long lag, which makes responding to a problem really difficult,” said Mastrup. “By ...

As for the work they are doing to bring abalone back from the brink of extinction, that will take some time, Aquilino says. The lab is creating about 30,000 white abalone a year, but she believes they ...

White abalone have the bad luck of being known as the most tender and delicious, and in the 1970s they were fished nearly to extinction. Today, diving for wild abalone is prohibited in California.