The earrings are only a couple of inches long, but the masterfully carved salmon look like they’ve leaped from the water to whisper in the wearer’s ear. Their glowing red hues and iridescent ...

In 1955, 10-year-old David Thomas started selling red abalone shells from a wagon on a corner of his father’s property in Morro Bay. Thomas estimates that he sold more than 1,000 abalone shells, all ...

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Abalone are near extinction, but UC Davis researchers think they can help turn that around with the help of an old medical tool used in hospitals for decades: ultrasounds. At the UC Davis Marine ...

For decades, they have covered the sea floor like cobblestones, giant sea snails so thick they seemed an inextinguishable resource. California’s red abalone are still abundant, as sea creatures go.

2002-05-23 04:00:00 PDT Salt Point, Sonoma County-- Veteran game warden Bob Aldrich, clad in camouflage, crept out onto a bluff near Timber Cove. Aldrich adjusted a tripod-mounted spotting scope. He ...

John Warren thinks back to the days when getting his hands on abalone was as easy as jumping on a surfboard and plucking the plentiful shellfish off a reef. Warren, who grew up in Capo Beach, always ...