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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a February visit to the old abalone farm north of Cayucos, about 900 concrete tanks once full of bubbling seawater pumped ...

After the last experience, I returned to abalone diving at low tide, exploring shallow waters. This adventure revealed a ...

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 NSW government says a reset is needed to ensure the sustainable future of the abalone fishery along the south coast, but commercial divers say the reduction is a "pretty disgusting state of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Van Damme was a San Francisco businessman who ran a ferry business in the early 1900s. Using the profits from his ...

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 ...

Kristin Aquilino stands outside a locked black door that has a sign that reads, "Authorized Personnel Only." "You're about to enter a room that has more white abalone than exist in the ocean, which is ...

These Northern California abalone divers have bagged their limits and are out of the water again safely. On some "ab" dives, tragic accidents happen. Photo courtesy of Flickr user ingridtaylar They’re ...

Jason Tuley stands in the middle of a sun-drenched farm field on an early Saturday morning in Los Olivos, Calif., holding a fat, dappled squash in one hand and a long, red noodle bean in the other. He ...