Hunched over a tank inside the Bodega Marine Laboratory, alongside bubbling vats of seaweed and greenhouses filled with algae, Kristin Aquilino coaxed a baby white abalone onto her hand. She held out ...
Even one living animal can give scientists insight into which habitats still support the species.
It has long been suspected that a small pāua (known as abalone, ormers or ear-shells overseas) found around a remote island chain north of Aotearoa New Zealand differs from all other pāua. Our earlier ...
April used to be the beginning of abalone diving season, when Bay Area families would head up the Sonoma-Mendocino coast to harvest the creatures, whose delicate flavor seems to capture all the ...
This article was originally published by Crosscut and is republished here with permission. When Kelley Scarzafava first started diving for pinto abalone in the San Juan Islands in the late 1980s, the ...
This adult 5-year-old red abalone has just released its eggs after spawning April 2, 2021. The tiny green dots on the bottom of the container are her eggs. (Isabelle Neylan/UC Davis) Stressful ...
May 5 (Reuters) - White abalone - whose flesh is a delicacy and polished shell is prized as mother of pearl - are threatened with extinction. But scientists are looking to turn the tide for these ...