5 articles
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
The giant sea bass is a 250-kilo shadows-and-kelp predator that fishermen nearly erased. Learn its biology, the crash and the slow comeback now unfolding.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·