Illegally harvested red abalone — similar to those seen here in a 2019 file photo — were recovered during a recent traffic stop in Sonoma County. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) A routine traffic ...

A routine traffic stop in Sonoma County turned out to be anything but as police found methamphetamine, about three dozen illegally harvested abalone and a live pond turtle, authorities said. The ...

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A police search of a vehicle pulled over in California turned up drugs, illegally harvested abalone and a pond turtle, California police reported. A 46-year-old Santa Rosa man driving the vehicle was ...

Western Australia's abalone fishery will extend north for the first time in more than a decade as the mollusc's population recovers to sustainable levels after a devastating marine heatwave in 2011.