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 ...

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This story originally appeared on High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk Collaboration. Updated | The earrings are only a couple of inches long, but the masterfully ...

In the days when horses roamed the bluffs above Horse Pastures reef south of Corona del Mar, Mike Curtis would clamber down the cliffs, paddle into the water, sink under the waves and pry abalone off ...

The authorities popped him near the docks in Port Angeles. On a March afternoon in 1994, a sleek fishing boat — not-so-subtly named the Abalone Made — came ashore after puttering around Freshwater Bay ...

Way out in California, abalones are a household name, as popular for their sweet meat as for their pearly collectible sheen. Of the nine species in North America, eight boast California roots. Long ...

A marine snail on the brink of extinction is getting help from Whatcom researchers and the Lummi Nation as Washington expands restoration efforts for the pinto abalone. The pinto abalone is the only ...

Hunched over a tank inside the Bodega Marine Laboratory, alongside bubbling vats of seaweed and greenhouses filled with algae, Kristin Aquilino coaxed a baby white abalone onto her hand. She held out ...

This 1963 photo is from a print showing editing marks. Fish and Game biologists Dick Poole, left and Keith Cox hold up evidence of abalone killed by sea otters that have migrated into north county ...