If Nancy Caruso has her way, in a short while there could be thousands of abalone babies off the Orange County coastline again. Caruso, a marine biologist, has restocked and grown green abalone on ...

This story is part of our summer series "Beachcombing," in which KPCC reporters explore the ecology, economy and culture of Southern California's beaches and coast. Let us know what you think in the ...

In the Bay Foundation’s two-year-old Abalone Research Laboratory on Terminal Island, abalone of varying sizes pass their days submerged in white tanks of saltwater. They look more like bewhiskered ...

Their distinctive hole-punched shells are still familiar, but the creatures that live inside them — abalone — have nearly vanished from Orange County shores. Marine biologist Nancy Caruso says she has ...

MONTEREY — Trevor Fay grabs a fistful of fresh, crisp kelp and crams it into a large steel cage hidden within a dim, wooden cavern beneath Municipal Wharf No. 2, just a few hundred feet from where ...

An understanding of the biochemical and physiological energetics of lecithotrophic development is useful for interpreting patterns of larval development, dispersal potential, and life-history ...

Billy Meistrell remembers plucking abalone like apples off a tree as a kid from the rocky intertidal zones along Palos Verdes Peninsula and Catalina Island, shucking them on the swing step of his ...

SYDNEY, Australia --Repurposing a crusty cargo ship that once ferried bulk items from scrap metal to logs, South Australia's Peter Wahlqvist is betting on a new commodity: high-value green lip abalone ...

My job is to write about the wonders and challenges of our coast and oceans, but I’ll admit: Before this story, I had no idea what an abalone looked like. They had vanished from the Southern ...

Marine biologist Nancy Caruso at Table Rock Beach in Laguna. She and a team of volunteers search for signs that the depleted snail-like abalone are reproducing again on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. (Photo ...

No one said regrowing Southern California’s endangered native abalone populations in labs would be easy. The Aquarium of the Pacific and Cabrillo Marine Aquarium both failed to coerce white abalone ...