The black abalone mollusk (Haliotis cracherodii) is a delicacy in many regions of the world, with fancy restaurant diners ...

1. Pick up the abalone. This may require prying the abalone from its hold, and using a stainless steel putty knife is recommended. But let's back up for a minute, because maybe you're wondering, What ...

Increasing levels of ocean acidity could spell doom for British Columbia's already beleaguered northern abalone, according to the first study to provide direct experimental evidence that changing sea ...

A marine snail on the brink of extinction is getting help from Whatcom researchers and the Lummi Nation as Washington expands restoration efforts for the pinto abalone. The pinto abalone is the only ...

My job is to write about the wonders and challenges of our coast and oceans, but I’ll admit: Before this story, I had no idea what an abalone looked like. They had vanished from the Southern ...

John Warren thinks back to the days when getting his hands on abalone was as easy as jumping on a surfboard and plucking the plentiful shellfish off a reef. Warren, who grew up in Capo Beach, always ...

Tiny as a fingernail, these babies don’t look like much. But there is a lot of hope riding on their progress. These pinto abalone are being raised by the tens of thousands in dozens of 30-gallon tanks ...

Many people have never eaten—or even heard of—red abalone, a species of sea snail that lives suctioned onto boulders and feeds on the lush kelp forests of Northern California. Abalone is a much-sought ...