1. Pick up the abalone. This may require prying the abalone from its hold, and using a stainless steel putty knife is recommended. But let's back up for a minute, because maybe you're wondering, What ...

If you're a fan of shellfish, there's one type, once very popular, that might permanently remain off menus in the future.

Though this seafood was eaten for centuries, it is now known for being rare and difficult to fish. Today, it is among the ...

Robert Louis Stevenson visited the Monterey Peninsula in 1879, and his tour of China Point captured its exotic flavor: “You will come upon a space of open down, a hamlet, a haven among rocks, a world ...

To bring abalone back from the edge of extinction, scientists need to find improved ways of coaxing the snails into reproducing. By Wudan Yan Kristin Aquilino, a scientist at the University of ...

THE RED ABALONE may be the largest abalone in the world and one of the most esteemed foods of the sea, but interest among local divers in hunting the big snails in the North Coast’s frigid waters ...

My job is to write about the wonders and challenges of our coast and oceans, but I’ll admit: Before this story, I had no idea what an abalone looked like. They had vanished from the Southern ...

All 7.3 million of them — not cattle, but the stunning green and bright blue shelled abalone that Asian consumers are scrambling to buy. Australian abalone bred and raised in shallow seawater-flushed ...

Tiny as a fingernail, these babies don’t look like much. But there is a lot of hope riding on their progress. These pinto abalone are being raised by the tens of thousands in dozens of 30-gallon tanks ...