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 ...

A 59-year-old San Jose man apparently drowned Monday morning while abalone diving near the Point Arena lighthouse, adding to an already high ocean-death toll for the year, authorities said. "Now we ...

'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 federal government on Friday proposed declaring the black abalone an endangered species, the first step in an effort to bring back the once-abundant mollusk ravaged by disease and excessive ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Lifeguards rescued four people from choppy waters and rip tides in Northern California this weekend. The Press Democrat reports (http ...

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 ...