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 ...

Sara Boles of UC Davis’ Bodega Marine Laboratory gives an ultrasound to an abalone as part of efforts to help abalone more successfully spawn for aquaculture and conservation. (Jackson Gross/UC Davis) ...

Richard Hayman, in another era, remembers harvesting dozens of red abalone with fellow divers on his regular underwater excursions, so plentiful was the mollusk among the rocks below the kelp beds of ...

Red abalone mothers from California’s North Coast give their offspring an energy boost when they’re born that helps them better withstand ocean acidification compared to their captive, farmed ...

Divers and tidepool pickers are being reminded that the Northern California’s red abalone fishery will remain closed for the next five years — extending a ban that went into effect three years ago.

California state-managed waters within the California current large marine ecosystem. Credit: PLOS Climate (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000574 Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone ...

During a February visit to the old abalone farm north of Cayucos, about 900 concrete tanks once full of bubbling seawater pumped from the ocean to feed valuable red abalone sat dry and empty aside ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Anglers are being reminded that the Northern California recreational red abalone fishery will remain closed for the next five years. Spring is normally the start of the ...

Illegally harvested red abalone — similar to those seen here in a 2019 file photo — were recovered during a recent traffic stop in Sonoma County. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) A routine traffic ...

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 ...

A routine traffic stop in Sonoma County turned out to be anything but as police found methamphetamine, about three dozen illegally harvested abalone and a live pond turtle, authorities said. The ...