The Wanted Alive! White Abalone campaign engages citizen scientists and recreational divers to record potential sightings of ...

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 ...

"It's just really exciting," one leader said of the groundbreaking plan to reunite ytt Tribe with its ancestral land.

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 ...

In the days when horses roamed the bluffs above Horse Pastures reef south of Corona del Mar, Mike Curtis would clamber down the cliffs, paddle into the water, sink under the waves and pry abalone off ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sudden death of thousands of red abalone and other invertebrates along the Sonoma County Coast over the past few weeks has prompted state wildlife officials to propose an indefinite ban on abalone ...