At this year’s SEG, Kansom promoted value-added products such as an abalone sea sauce, canned almonds coated with the firm’s ...

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 ...

Sara Boles of UC Davis’ Bodega Marine Laboratory gives an ultrasound to an abalone as part of efforts to help abalone more successfully spawn for aquaculture and conservation. (Jackson Gross/UC Davis) ...

Jason Tuley stands in the middle of a sun-drenched farm field on an early Saturday morning in Los Olivos, Calif., holding a fat, dappled squash in one hand and a long, red noodle bean in the other. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a February visit to the old abalone farm north of Cayucos, about 900 concrete tanks once full of bubbling seawater pumped ...

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 ...

Beneath the Municipal Wharf in the coastal community of Monterey, a fascinating experiment in ocean farming has played out for more than three decades. That’s where the Monterey Abalone Company grows ...

There wasn’t anything else like it when the abalone farm north of Cayucos was built. Interest in the aquaculture facility is renewed as a new group of scientists propose to revive activity at the site ...

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 ...

In an ambitious effort to rescue California's succulent white abalone from near-extinction, scientists have induced a tiny group of the rare shellfish to spawn in the laboratory and produce millions ...

These sea creatures are on quite the California adventure. The baby white abalone started their lives in the UC Davis Bodega Marine Lab in Northern California. This week they boarded a private plane ...