They hide out along rocky coastlines in the Pacific Basin, indulge in group sex and prefer a simple diet of kelp. Sometimes they smuggle pearls. Such revelations aside, abalone offer sensual ...

Diving for slow-moving abalone has become one of California's most hazardous recreational activities. Seven divers have died so far this year off the rugged coast of Sonoma and Mendocino counties.

She’s now at about 30,000 a year, but to truly keep the population going, she needs 100,000 new abalone each year. “If we can make enough of these animals,” she said, “we will be able to ...

American Abalone Farms is located on a picturesque cove near Santa Cruz, where visitors can buy and consume abalone and other local seafood on Saturdays. (Anne Roth) These events are attended by the ...

White abalone have the bad luck of being known as the most tender and delicious, and in the 1970s they were fished nearly to extinction. Today, diving for wild abalone is prohibited in California.

So biologists who started a captive breeding program to save the species faced a formidable challenge: how to get the white abalone in the mood. Call it chemistry. Call it lucky in love.

A rash of abalone poaching along the Northern California coast combined with a huge increase in legally harvested mollusks has left so few of the delicacies clinging to the rocks that the ...

Now, a study published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science offers an improved tool for determining which abalone will be reproductive. The technique, using noninvasive ultrasound ...

White abalone have the bad luck of being known as the most tender and delicious, and in the 1970s they were fished nearly to extinction. Today, diving for wild abalone is prohibited in California.

ABALONE31_418_cl.JPG Photo for story on the Monterey Abalone Company, which raises abalone in cages in the Monterey Bay. Art Seavey and Trevor Fay are the owners.

4. They Can Spawn Millions of Eggs at Once . Young abalone spawn a few thousand eggs in the initial years of reproduction, but when they grow older and larger, they spawn millions.

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, 2025 ...