Monterey hosted its inaugural abalone festival, honoring the city's rich cultural and conservation legacy tied to the abalone industry.

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 ...

Abalone shells dating back thousands of years, used in trade for other goods, were found at early Native American sites. In the ’20s, immigrants from Asia discovered the abalone and started ...

A healthy product of the White Abalone Recovery Project as seen shell side up in the lab at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach on Friday, November 8, 2019.

Any nick to this male abalone’s flesh, or chip to its shell, could cause the snail to bleed uncontrollably since its fluid doesn’t clot. “I’ve been studying these animals for years and this is one of ...

The Chumash called them t’aya. Equally important, abalone shells were prized in themselves and specifically for use during ritual ceremonies (e.g., white sage was burned in them).

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 unique sea snails ...

White abalone populations in the wild are at 1% of their historic levels. "Captive breeding might be the only way this population can recover," says co-lead researcher Dr. Laura Rogers-Bennett.

The white abalone, the deepest dwelling of the species, were plundered from 1969 to 1982, when most other types were picked clean. Once numbering 4.24 million, their population has plunged to ...

Kristin Aquilino, a scientist at the University of California, Davis, knows that expectations are just disappointments in disguise. Over the last decade, she has led the school’s white abalone ...