To bring abalone back from the edge of extinction, scientists need to find improved ways of coaxing the snails into reproducing. By Wudan Yan Kristin Aquilino, a scientist at the University of ...
Jewelers may prize abalone shells for their mother-of-pearl, but scientists have long been equally enchanted by the shell’s strength. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have used a ...
White abalone was widely eaten on the west coast of the U.S. for hundreds of years, but overfishing prompted a ban and a spot ...
“What’s not to enjoy about being 50m from the beach?” said Tim, who runs Coastal Seafarms, an abalone farm on the outskirts of Portland in southwest Victoria. “I’ll take my board down for a surf ...
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 ...