Highly valued for its edible muscular foot and mother-of-pearl shell, the pinto abalone has declined significantly in recent decades and faces extinction unless it'ss protected — and soon — under the ...

Cops have nabbed two foreign nationals with a tonne of stolen perly worth R7 million. The two were arrested in Wellington on ...

Black abalone were once the most abundant large shellfish clinging to the rocks of intertidal zones between Baja and Oregon. A savored delicacy for sea otters and native coastal people alike, these ...

The nation’s natural abalone catch fell from 6,466 tons in 1970 to 669 tons in 2020, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. In fiscal 2021, it designated the three ...