Although there are abalone from various countries, most of these cheaper canned products come from China – the biggest country in abalone farming. Overproduction resulting from excessive farming ...

Abalone has a long history in California, but the sea snail is in short supply today. One of the state’s last commercial ...

He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone.

Highly valued for its edible muscular foot and mother-of-pearl shell, the pinto abalone has declined significantly in recent decades and faces extinction unless it'ss protected — and soon — under the ...

If you're having the seafood vendor clean the abalone for you, buy them as close as possible to when you plan to cook them, and ask for four of the shells, to serve the sauce in. It isn't much ...

DESCRIPTION: The ocean-dwelling black abalone has a single shell that is smoother than that of other abalone species. Its exterior is dark blue, dark green, or almost black in color, while the inside ...