A Daly City man who went diving with friends off the coast of Point Arena on Friday morning became the first victim of the abalone season on the Sonoma/Mendocino coast. The 28-year-old man was pulled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A staff member stuffs seaweed into cages of abalone at the Monterey Abalone Company's farm on Nov. 10. The company goes through ...

A suspected poacher accused of violating California’s eight-year-old ban on abalone harvest along the Sonoma Coast appeared in court in Santa Rosa Friday morning. In a brief appearance before Sonoma ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California wildlife managers have sharply reduced the amount of red abalone that divers can catch this year because ocean conditions have prompted extensive starvation in abalone ...

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 ...