In 2012, scientists at the UC-Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory successfully bred the white abalone in captivity for the first time. That year, researcher Kristin Aquilino says scientists produced 12 ...
The abalone inside the UC Davis lab vary from a tiny speck to the size of a softball. (Nick Campbell) Kristin Aquilino stands outside a locked black door that has a sign that reads, "Authorized ...
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White abalone, the most succulent and rarest of California’s abalone populations, began receiving federal protection as an endangered species Tuesday. The abalone have been off-limits to fishing for ...
Krristin Aquilino, who leads the white abalone captive breeding program at Bodega Marine Laboratory, looks at young white abalone clinging to a piece of dulse in the lab. (Gregory Urquiaga, UC Davis) ...
Federal biologists say a species of sea snail once plentiful from Santa Barbara to Baja Mexico has dwindled so far that it may not come back. Older Southern Californians can remember white abalone in ...
The Bodega Marine Laboratory’s white abalone program has millions of new additions following its most successful spawning ever at the University of California, Davis, facility. Three out of nine ...
In La Jolla Wednesday, hundreds of young white abalone were getting ready for a venture into the wild as part of a campaign to reintroduce the endangered sea creatures to the California Coast. Marine ...
Kristin Aquilino stands outside a locked black door that has a sign that reads, "Authorized Personnel Only." "You're about to enter a room that has more white abalone than exist in the ocean, which is ...