While Mahoney often uses the brighter-hued abalone shells from New Zealand ... their families who sailed to Point Lobos from southern China in the 1850s in 30-foot junks. Like the Ohlone who ...

The FAO says China is the world's largest ... also often poached for food and their coveted shells. "Training Manual on Artificial Breeding of Abalone (Haliotis discus hannai) in Korea DPR." ...

Chinese-farmed abalone is flooding the Chinese market, and it is bad news for the Tasmanian industry as its premium product ...

A: Yes, they’re live and in the shell. We don’t do any processing ... It used to be that Japan was the biggest market for abalone, but I’m quite sure that China has surpassed it.

“Hong Kong and China don’t care what they’re doing ... from the Khoi and the San you will find abalone shells.” For those in these local communities hoping to combat illicit abalone ...

This pixiu (a lion-shaped beast from Chinese mythology which is believed to turn calamities into blessings) is made of abalone shells from Dalian of Liaoning, China and Australia, finished jewelry ...

An aerial drone photo shows a view of an abalone breeding area in Lianjiang County, southeast China's Fujian Province, March 12, 2025. As the weather warms up, fishermen in Lianjiang start abalone ...

He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone.

In 1955, 10-year-old David Thomas started selling red abalone shells from a wagon on a corner of his father’s property in Morro Bay. Thomas estimates that he sold more than 1,000 abalone shells ...