If you’ve ever ordered an abalone dish at a restaurant in the U.S., that pricy sea snail probably came from this farm in Santa Barbara, California. The Cultured Abalone Farm is one of only two red ...

SANTA BARBARA – California Fish and Game commissioners have agreed to reopen a commercial abalone fishery despite biologists’ concerns that it could harm the recovery of the tasty mollusk that was ...

SANTA BARBARA – California Fish and Game commissioners have agreed to reopen a commercial abalone fishery despite biologists’ concerns that it could harm the tasty mollusk decimated by excessive ...

Saturday nights at the Petaluma Fairgrounds, Silicon Valley mechanical engineer Doug Hayes indulges his passion for speed, strapping himself into a stock car to burn rubber around a noisy, dirt oval ...

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Things were looking pretty grim for a group of scientists in search of wild white abalone this fall. Researchers from UC Davis, California Department of Fish and Wildlife and NOAA Fisheries were ...

Kristin Aquilino stands outside a locked black door that has a sign that reads, "Authorized Personnel Only." "You're about to enter a room that has more white abalone than exist in the ocean, which is ...

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Kristin Aquilino, program manager for the white abalone captive breeding program, gives heartfelt words during their "graduation" ceremony at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in late August 2019.