Their success is changing the perception of Aboriginal communities from “fish thieves” to leaders in regional development. When I meet Rodney Scott Dillon in April, he is lounging on the front porch ...

Abalone divers and other ocean enthusiasts have scheduled a two-day blitz to clear purple urchins from a spot on the Sonoma Coast in hopes of saving the kelp forest and the reviving abalone that ...

In a blow to abalone hunters and a host of North Coast businesses that rely upon their patronage, the state Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to suspend the harvest of red abalone in 2018, ...

After the Trump administration funds that support species recovery, the UC Davis-affiliated lab on the Sonoma Coast turned to outside supporters for help, hosting a community gala to showcase its ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California wildlife managers have curtailed this year's red abalone season, axing both April and November from the calendar and sharply reducing the allowable annual catch. State ...

RUSSIAN GULCH, Calif. — When the tide goes out, the traffic along Highway 1 here slows to a crawl. A uniformed warden approaches a pickup truck amid the procession of cars. He narrows his eyes and ...

In a dark fish tank at a government-run lab, a bright sea snail scuttles out from its hiding place. It’s a pinto abalone, and its numbers are dangerously low in Washington state after decades of ...

(KRON) — A probation search of a driver and his vehicle in Windsor on Wednesday uncovered dozens of illegally harvested red abalone along with methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, police said. A ...

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 ...

For decades, they have covered the sea floor like cobblestones, giant sea snails so thick they seemed an inextinguishable resource. California’s red abalone are still abundant, as sea creatures go.

White abalone, the most succulent and rarest of California’s abalone populations, began receiving federal protection as an endangered species Tuesday. The abalone have been off-limits to fishing for ...