Their shells, brilliant and pearlescent ... once teemed with the greatest number of abalone species in the world — black, white, red, green, pink, flat and pinto. Linguists trace the word ...

Polished pieces of shell become saxophone keys ... bust commercial fishing in California for white, black, green and pink abalone. The same pattern followed along the Strait of Georgia, north ...

Shells dating back thousands of years ... Caruso’s surviving abalone – adorned with bright pink tags – are being cared for at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point and at the Pennington Marine ...

Normally the body and foot of an abalone fill the entire volume of shell. When they are infected ... grew ill at 18° C (64° F), while the pink abalone, native to southern California, was ...

An edible delicacy prized for their shells, abalone populations historically ... using surrogate species—like pinto, green, pink, and red abalone—these facilities will provide the individual ...

(We're looking exclusively for relatively plentiful red and pink abalone. While white abalone ... and uses an iron to slowly pry it from its shell, then cuts its gut sack loose.

DESCRIPTION: The ocean-dwelling black abalone has a single shell that is smoother than that of other abalone species. Its exterior is dark blue, dark green, or almost black in color, while the inside ...

Abalone is an umbrella term for a group of marine snails, only they don’t look like your typical snail because they have a flattened spiral shell. Their other common name is pāua, and they can ...