The earrings are only a couple of inches long, but the masterfully carved salmon look like they’ve leaped from the water to whisper in the wearer’s ear. Their glowing red hues and iridescent ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION: The ocean-dwelling black abalone has a single shell that is smoother than that of other abalone species. Its exterior is dark blue, dark green, or almost black in color, while the inside ...

Way out at the very end of the Municipal Wharf in Monterey, Art Seavey descends through a trapdoor, walks on a handmade network of slippery wooden planks and pulls a rope to hoist a dripping wire cage ...

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 ...

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This story originally appeared on High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk Collaboration. Updated | The earrings are only a couple of inches long, but the masterfully ...

Sharks, red tide and scuba diving: That's enough to keep me from scouring the frigid waters of Northern California for abalone (and I can already hear the cries of gratitude from the wet-suiters who ...