OAKLAND, Calif. - California wildlife officials voted Thursday to close sport abalone diving for the season amid concerns about a declining population. The season was set to begin in April. The ...

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 ...

(KRON) — California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials recently issued seven tickets to people poaching red abalone on the Sonoma, Mendocino and Humboldt county coasts. “Coinciding with a ...

A routine traffic stop in Sonoma County turned out to be anything but as police found methamphetamine, about three dozen illegally harvested abalone and a live pond turtle, authorities said. The ...

Sara Boles of UC Davis’ Bodega Marine Laboratory gives an ultrasound to an abalone as part of efforts to help abalone more successfully spawn for aquaculture and conservation. (Jackson Gross/UC Davis) ...

The most reliable source of fresh, California-grown abalone from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border is The Cultured Abalone, an aquaculture farm that’s existed on Dos Pueblos Ranch along the Gaviota ...

It is an odd spot for a miracle, this motley collection of beachfront shacks and sea-scoured concrete tanks clinging to a sunburned bluff above the Pacific just north of Morro Bay. But it’s hard to ...

ACTION NEWS 8 REPORTER... JOYCE KIM... HAS THE DETAILS. "ABALONE IS VERY IMPORTANT TO MONTEREY. MONTEREY LITERALLY WHERE THE ABALONE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD AT ONE TIME ...