A rash of abalone poaching along the Northern California coast combined with a huge increase in legally harvested mollusks has left so few of the delicacies clinging to the rocks that the population ...

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 ...

'There's so many people who find real joy in abalone fishing, and we hate to shut it down. That's a given,' says state Fish and Game Commission President Eric Sklar, but that's what officials are ...

The three abalone divers who died off the North Coast during a 24-hour period this weekend were the first deaths of the year and the most in a brief period of time since three abalone divers died over ...

Even after 40 years of diving along the North Coast, John Corbett said he was shocked Monday to hear that three recreational divers died in separate incidents over the weekend while hunting abalone ...

An El Paso Man drowned while he was abalone hunting in the Northern California coast, officials said. The Press Democrat, a Northern California newspaper, reported that 67-year old Gerald McGuire was ...

Citing poor environmental conditions affecting the Northern California red abalone fishery, the California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to reduce the annual limit on the ...