SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Diving for abalone can be a dangerous sport, but that doesn't deter the thousands of people who trek to the northern California coastlines each season to take a stab at getting ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Diving for abalone can be a dangerous sport, but that doesn't deter the thousands of people who trek to the northern California coastlines each season to take a stab at getting some of ...

JENNER — Word on the street is that new restrictions designed to curtail the abalone harvest off the Sonoma Coast this year have dampened enthusiasm for the sport enough to keep some would-be divers ...

Just outside the town of Mendocino in the middle of Van Damme Beach, a weathered placard educates bystanders about the region's red abalone, a once prolific seasnail whose mild taste and iridescent ...

Mixed seafood including abalone on ice - Thai Liang Lim/Getty Images Nestled in the rocky, shallow areas of bays, tide pools, and kelp forests in Central and Northern California is a species of ...

Question: My question is about the requirement that abalone may not be taken before 8 a.m. This year there are a few good minus tides that bottom out before 8 a.m. Is it legal to be on the abalone ...

YOU'D THINK it would be easy to creep up on a dinner-plate-size mollusk that has barely any means of locomotion. But there I was, feeling as sleek and furtive as a circus clown as I tried to take an ...

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, ...