For whale enthusiasts, there’s one must-attend event in Northern California every year: Whalefest Monterey, taking place over ...

Assemblymember Diane Dixon says we need another state symbol — an official state seashell. No opposition has emerged to her bill.

Like most other species of abalone native to coastal California, black abalone have been decimated by seafood enthusiasts and the fisheries that fill their plates. Three years after Center petitioned ...

A police search of a vehicle pulled over in California turned up drugs, illegally harvested abalone and a pond turtle, California police reported. A 46-year-old Santa Rosa man driving the vehicle ...

The pinto abalone is a marine snail found in scattered patches in rocky areas of the intertidal zone off North America's West Coast, from Alaska to California. Pinto abalone are part of the kelp ...

When Santa Barbara diving pioneer Bob Ratcliffe was 16 years old and in the 11th grade, he snorkeled into the major turning ...