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 ...

Richard Hayman, in another era, remembers harvesting dozens of red abalone with fellow divers on his regular underwater excursions, so plentiful was the mollusk among the rocks below the kelp beds of ...

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 ...

California’s recreational harvest of abalone has been banned since 2018. On Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, the Fish and Game Commission approved the extension of the ban. Photo from Windsor Police ...

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A police search of a vehicle pulled over in California turned up drugs, illegally harvested abalone and a pond turtle, California police reported. A 46-year-old Santa Rosa man driving the vehicle was ...