Field Notes8 min read
Field Notes: Abalone Back in the Quadrats
Seven years after seeding began on Tasmania's Lumeriah Coast, juvenile blacklip abalone are turning up in the monitoring quadrats again. Here's why that matters.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
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Encyclopedia9 min read
Blacklip Abalone (Haliotis rubra): Australia's Reef-Grazing Giant
The blacklip abalone is southern Australia's largest abalone — a kelp-fed reef grazer that supports one of the world's most valuable wild shellfish fisheries.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Encyclopedia9 min read
Flat Abalone: The Northernmost of California's Abalones
The flat abalone is a deep, flattened grazer of Oregon and northern California reefs — the most northern-centred of California's abalones, never common and rarely seen.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia9 min read
Green Abalone: Life on the Kelp Forest Edge
Haliotis fulgens, the green abalone, is a kelp-trapping herbivore of Baja and southern California. Shell, life cycle, fishery history and recovery.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Encyclopedia10 min read
Northern Abalone: Canada's Pinto, the Endangered Grazer
The pinto abalone is the small, iridescent grazer of the northeast Pacific — endangered since the 1990s and the focus of a careful hatchery recovery effort.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Encyclopedia9 min read
Pink Abalone (Haliotis corrugata): The Corrugated Architect of Baja's Kelp Edge
Pink abalone built Baja California's most storied shellfish fishery, then nearly vanished with the kelp. Inside the cooperative-led fight to bring them back.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Pinto Abalone: The Northern Grazer Fighting Its Way Back
Hunted to near-collapse, the pinto abalone is being rebuilt by hatcheries and divers in the Salish Sea. Inside North America's meticulous abalone comeback.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
The Sonoma Coast: After the Bull Kelp
Sonoma's coast lost most of its bull kelp a decade ago. A guide to the collapse, the abalone closure, and where the forest is quietly returning.
Jack Callum ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
White Abalone: How a Deep-Water Drifter Became the First Endangered Marine Invertebrate
The white abalone crashed so fast that by the time it was protected, wild adults were too far apart to breed. Captive breeding is testing a way back.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Science8 min read
Withering Syndrome: Anatomy of an Abalone Disease in a Warming Ocean
Withering syndrome has killed millions of abalone since the 1980s — a bacterial disease switched on by warm water. The science of the pathogen and outbreaks.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Black Abalone (Haliotis cracherodii): Species Profile and Recovery
Black abalone once blanketed California's rocky intertidal, then disease and poaching erased most of them. Inside an unlikely marine recovery story.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Pāua (Haliotis iris): New Zealand's Iconic Abalone
Pāua, New Zealand's iridescent abalone, is a taonga species, a prized kaimoana and a carefully managed fishery. Its biology and cultural story.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Red Abalone (Haliotis rufescens): Species Profile
Meet the world's largest abalone — a kelp-eating giant sea snail of the Pacific coast. Its biology, fishery history and the road to recovery.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas8 min read
Kelp Forests of South Africa: Where Two Oceans Grow One Forest
A guide to South Africa's kelp forests — towering sea bamboo in cold Benguela water, abalone farms, great white sharks, and an Atlantic-Pacific meeting of seas.
Naomi Reyes ·