Their moving lights and night activity — "the kind of lights that usually mean someone is doing more than sightseeing," the ...

This adult 5-year-old red abalone has just released its eggs after spawning April 2, 2021. The tiny green dots on the bottom of the container are her eggs. (Isabelle Neylan/UC Davis) Stressful ...

(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 ...

During a February visit to the old abalone farm north of Cayucos, about 900 concrete tanks once full of bubbling seawater pumped from the ocean to feed valuable red abalone sat dry and empty aside ...

California has decided that red abalone will stay off recreational menus for another decade, extending a closure that has already reshaped life along the North Coast. The move reflects a hard lesson ...

Nestled in the rocky, shallow areas of bays, tide pools, and kelp forests in Central and Northern California is a species of abalone which has been an important part of local life for centuries. Red ...

California state-managed waters within the California current large marine ecosystem. Credit: PLOS Climate (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000574 Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone ...

On Nov. 7, officers of the California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife apprehended a man suspected of poaching 15 red abalone at Ocean Cove, on the Sonoma Coast. Department of Fish and Wildlife A suspected ...

A routine traffic stop in Sonoma County turned out to be anything but as police found methamphetamine, about three dozen illegally harvested abalone and a live pond turtle, authorities said. The ...

Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Public domain. I'm always looking for "surprises" in animal behavior and how environmental conditions can influence behavior and physiology over ...