Hundreds of sea snails were released off San Diego County’s coast in an effort to save a dying species once prolific to Southern California. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...

The world's abalone are threatened, endangered or otherwise vulnerable in nearly every corner of the planet. If only we could wave a magic wand to know when abalone are ready to reproduce, without ...

If Nancy Caruso has her way, in a short while there could be thousands of abalone babies off the Orange County coastline again. Caruso, a marine biologist, has restocked and grown green abalone on ...

Once upon a time, Indigenous people living off the coast of California and Mexico's Baja Peninsula regularly ate white abalone. The area's inhabitants fished for this delicious and nutritious mollusk ...

An El Cerrito man searching for abalone died this week off the rugged coast of Mendocino County, marking the fourth fatality in the area this month related to mollusk-hunting. Joel Falcon, 52, and a ...

Abalone, large single-shelled mollusks, are an unusual sight these days off the coast of Washington, California, and Oregon. Of seven species of abalone on the west coast, two are endangered and three ...

A new report exposes multilayered damages associated with the abalone poaching industry between South Africa and East Asia. The illegal trade is embedded in South Africa’s deeply unequal society. A ...

Overfishing and environmental change have pushed abalone species on the US west coast to the edge of extinction. Now a fatal disease threatens their recovery. But new research shows that some abalone ...