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 ...

Herbalists grind the shells into powder ... These days, Alioto buys Mexican pink abalone, paying around $75 a pound. One of my fondest dining memories is of nibbling on abalone at a corner ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION: White abalone are ocean-dwelling mollusks with a thin, oval shell that is red or brown on the outside and a variety of iridescent colors, particularly white and pink, inside. They grow to ...

(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.

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 ...

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 ...