The most reliable source of fresh, California-grown abalone from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border is The Cultured Abalone, an aquaculture farm that’s existed on Dos Pueblos Ranch along the Gaviota ...

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 ...

Chinese abalone firm Fujian Xiangbin recently acquired Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) two-star certification in an effort to expand sales in the domestic premium market and also grow international ...

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A group drew the attention of wildlife officers. Authorities make startling discovery after observing strange behavior in ...

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) ...

It is an odd spot for a miracle, this motley collection of beachfront shacks and sea-scoured concrete tanks clinging to a sunburned bluff above the Pacific just north of Morro Bay. But it’s hard to ...

Beneath the Municipal Wharf in the coastal community of Monterey, a fascinating experiment in ocean farming has played out for more than three decades. That’s where the Monterey Abalone Company grows ...

It is an odd spot for a miracle, this motley collection of beachfront shacks and sea-scoured concrete tanks clinging to a sunburned bluff above the Pacific just north of Morro Bay. But it’s hard to ...

BIG SUR, Calif.— It’s four in the morning, damp and dark along the central California coast. Huddled around the back of a minivan, five scientists in waders and boots tenderly move 41 black abalone ...