The authorities popped him near the docks in Port Angeles. On a March afternoon in 1994, a sleek fishing boat — not-so-subtly named the Abalone Made — came ashore after puttering around Freshwater Bay ...

Way out in California, abalones are a household name, as popular for their sweet meat as for their pearly collectible sheen. Of the nine species in North America, eight boast California roots. Long ...

Hunched over a tank inside the Bodega Marine Laboratory, alongside bubbling vats of seaweed and greenhouses filled with algae, Kristin Aquilino coaxed a baby white abalone onto her hand. She held out ...

A diver holds three recently caught abalone in his hand. Credit: Nicholas Muller Shihaam’s fondest abalone memory dates to her childhood. “My first one was during Carnival in February, where we knew ...