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

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 ...

Some people are serious about shell collecting. John Fatu has a species of abalone named after him. He started collecting shells and sending them to the Smithsonian Institution about 30 years ago.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. You've held on to your fear of preparing seafood for too long. Now's the perfect time to experiment with the ocean's bounty. The tougher ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the film “Finding Dory,” the ocean was shown to be dark and trashed. It is my opinion that Pixar alluded to a dark and trashed ocean and links the cause to the aquarium and its sister environmental ...

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 ...