Hunched over a tank inside the Bodega Marine Laboratory, alongside bubbling vats of seaweed and greenhouses filled with algae, Kristin Aquilino coaxed a baby white abalone onto her hand. She held out ...

The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), commonly known as the Hawks, last night investigated a crime scene ...

A late-night vehicle search in Windsor led police to a trove of illicit finds: nearly three dozen illegally harvested abalone — large marine snails prized as a delicacy and protected due to their ...

(KRON) — California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials recently issued seven tickets to people poaching red abalone on the Sonoma, Mendocino and Humboldt county coasts. “Coinciding with a ...

California Fish and Game commissioners have agreed with former abalone divers to reopen a commercial abalone fishery in Southern California, ignoring the advice of state biologists who warn it could ...

BIG SUR, Calif.— It’s four in the morning, damp and dark along the central California coast. Huddled around the back of a minivan, five scientists in waders and boots tenderly move 41 black abalone ...