Abalone is one of the most expensive seafood items in the world, but what makes this gastropod so sought-after? These are the ...

A marine snail on the brink of extinction is getting help from Whatcom researchers and the Lummi Nation as Washington expands restoration efforts for the pinto abalone. The pinto abalone is the only ...

LONG BEACH – Six white abalone stewed in six white buckets, each submerged in a chemical bath that was supposed to prompt them to spawn. Fewer than 1,000 of these slow-moving, cream-colored sea snails ...

How do you save a struggling sea species on the brink of extinction? When it comes to endangered white abalone, marine scientists are hoping “human helper” efforts will provide the necessary lifeline.

Many people have never eaten—or even heard of—red abalone, a species of sea snail that lives suctioned onto boulders and feeds on the lush kelp forests of Northern California. Abalone is a much-sought ...