Pinto abalone are part of the kelp forest ecosystem, a sensitive habitat that has been disrupted from its natural state by human activities for hundreds of years, beginning with the near-extirpation ...

Three years after Center petitioned for federal protection of the black abalone, in January 2009 the National Marine Fisheries Service declared the species officially endangered under the Endangered ...

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Marine Resource Committee has a new project aimed at studying and potentially increasing the pinto abalone population. During the county commissioners’ Monday ...