Reg Wydeven is a partner with the Appleton-based law firm of McCarty Law LLP. He writes a weekly column for The Post-Crescent ...

The farm is also committed to helping with abalone conservation; wild populations have experienced a huge decline since the ’70s from overfishing and habitat loss. The Cultured Abalone Farm’s hatchery ...

Once upon a time, Indigenous people living off the coast of California and Mexico's Baja Peninsula regularly ate white abalone. The area's inhabitants fished for this delicious and nutritious mollusk ...

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 ...

Krristin Aquilino, who leads the white abalone captive breeding program at Bodega Marine Laboratory, looks at young white abalone clinging to a piece of dulse in the lab. (Gregory Urquiaga, UC Davis) ...

If you’ve never seen abalone, celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern will show you some on a Hawaiian farm on his Travel Channel show airing Monday. But you can also see that farm in person -- and sample the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kristin Aquilino stands outside a locked black door that has a sign that reads, "Authorized Personnel Only." "You're about to enter a room that has more white abalone than exist in the ocean, which is ...

In a historic race against extinction for one species, the white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni) was given a second chance at survival. In an exciting and groundbreaking conservation project, 3,200 of ...

1. Pick up the abalone. This may require prying the abalone from its hold, and using a stainless steel putty knife is recommended. But let's back up for a minute, because maybe you're wondering, What ...