Things were looking pretty grim for a group of scientists in search of wild white abalone this fall. Researchers from UC Davis, California Department of Fish and Wildlife and NOAA Fisheries were ...

The white abalone population has declined by 99% since the 1970s.

A wild abalone taken from southern Tasmanian waters has tested positive to the deadly virus found in fish at a processing plant in the south last week. The Department of Primary Industries says 83 ...

Abalone from wild fisheries will be tested today for a deadly disease which has been found in tank fish. Fish in a tank at a processing facility in southern Tasmania have tested positive for Viral ...

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LONG BEACH – Six white abalone stewed in six white buckets, each submerged in a chemical bath that was supposed to prompt them to spawn. Fewer than 1,000 of these slow-moving, cream-colored sea snails ...

SYDNEY, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The world's biggest wild abalone fishery, which accounts for 25 percent of the global annual harvest, may be under threat from a destructive virus, Australian officials ...

For generations, wild abalone fed communities along the Pacific coast, from California to Alaska. Indigenous peoples from over twenty tribes, including the Chumash, Tongva, and Ohlone, gathered ...

Cape Town, South Africa, 25 October—the South African government’s decision to close the commercial wild abalone fishery from 1st November 2007 is unlikely to lead to a decrease in abalone poaching, ...

Sharks, red tide and scuba diving: That's enough to keep me from scouring the frigid waters of Northern California for abalone (and I can already hear the cries of gratitude from the wet-suiters who ...