The state Fish and Game Commission on Thursday ended the abalone season in Sonoma County, more than two months before its scheduled conclusion. The emergency decision followed the deaths of an untold ...

The California Department of Fish and Game voted Sept. 15 to close the fishery early but did not set a date. The abalone season typically opens April 1, closes during the month of July and resumes ...

Just outside the town of Mendocino in the middle of Van Damme Beach, a weathered placard educates bystanders about the region's red abalone, a once prolific seasnail whose mild taste and iridescent ...

ShellShock explores the state of South Africa’s endemic Abalone Haliotis midae. Decades of poaching and trafficking have driven wild populations towards collapse, fuelling organised crime and ...

Ahead of the recent CITES summit to hash out wildlife trade regulations, South Africa was expected to table a proposal that would have tightened the legal trade in South African abalone, a shellfish ...