Unfortunately there is a component of the market that likes that trophy – they like a big shell.” The amount of abalone being poached each year in South Africa dwarfs the overall legal annual ...

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 ...

An ibis stalked among the shells, pecking at scraps of abalone ... where abalone is esteemed as a delicacy and an aphrodisiac. In South Africa abalone is a synonym for failure: of law enforcement ...

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 ...