The California Fish and Game Commission has extended the ban on abalone harvesting in Northern California until 2036 due to declining red abalone populations and environmental challenges.

Question: What’s happening with abalone for this year? Does the season close at the end of October or November? And what is the season limit? (Dahn N., Benicia) Answer: Abalone populations in ...

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 ...

By Victoria Schneider Amid negotiations last week on wildlife trade regulations by delegates from around the world, one item ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONG BEACH – Six white abalone stewed in six white buckets, each submerged in a chemical bath that was supposed to prompt them to spawn. Fewer than 1,000 of these slow-moving, cream-colored sea snails ...

Nearly a dozen people had to be rescued in the first hour of the tightly managed abalone fishing season on Saturday.

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 ...

During a February visit to the old abalone farm north of Cayucos, about 900 concrete tanks once full of bubbling seawater pumped from the ocean to feed valuable red abalone sat dry and empty aside ...

The Citrus Heights man was allegedly caught carrying a bag with 15 red abalone near Salt Point.