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 ...

Only oysters of the Ostreidae family can make pearls, but many other types of mollusks can produce these gems, such as ...

In this episode, Charles introduces us to the different abalone species along our coast, how to tell them apart and explains how human exploitation, paired with their unfortunate biology, has led to a ...