A dozen more at NOAA, Fish and Wildlife and the Aquarium of the Pacific studying how abalone breed, the food they eat, and the predators that eat them. “Abalone historically brought people ...

That was the closest investigators have come to blowing open the fabled trans-Pacific abalone-trafficking pipeline. In reality, the business is flexible, adaptable — and, contrary to legend ...

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Across the rocks and coves of the Pacific coast, large, flat snails the shape and size of oblong saucers blanketed the shoreline. Abalone was a lucrative product on the Chinese market, and so the ...

In the 15 years since, pinto abalone populations at surveyed sites in Washington have declined more than 80 percent. From Admiralty Inlet to the Pacific, abalone once were so common that San Juan ...

Fun fact: The Aquarium of the Pacific was the first aquarium to successfully breed and raise the fish in captivity and ...

Monterey Abalone Company employee Ian Brown, of Pacific Grove, gets an abalone cage ready to be placed in the waters underneath the Municipal Wharf in Monterey, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 15 ...

Sharks like to munch on abalone-eating sea otters and sea lions, but occasionally mistake divers for the same. 4. On the button: Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History At the charmingly compact ...

Big Island Abalone Corp. is planning to double its size to nearly 20 acres at the Hawaii Ocean Science and Technology Park, which is administered by the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii ...

like Chol Pak’s Pacific Fresh Fish Co. downtown, which sells to Southern California sushi bars and markets such as Assi Market in Koreatown. Because of its scarcity, fresh abalone is ...