SAN FRANCISCO – California wildlife managers have sharply reduced the amount of red abalone that divers can catch this year because ocean conditions have prompted extensive starvation in abalone ...

Abalone diving, a popular family tradition and adventure sport, draws thousands of enthusiasts each year to the North Coast. But the once-abundant fishery is in danger, and state officials are ...

Abalone divers are in for a shock this year, likely more uncomfortable than the first surge of cold ocean water inside a wetsuit. In the wake of an unprecedented abalone die-off in 2011, new ...

Five fishermen have been fined a total of more than $23,500 for exceeding the legal limit of abalone at Cape Naturaliste. The penalties were handed down at Busselton Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

Game wardens will staff a checkpoint this weekend in Mendocino County to catch abalone poachers. The Department of Fish and Game said the checkpoint Saturday would be somewhere along Highway 20. The ...

FORT BRAGG, Calif. — Every year, as steady as the tides, lifeless bodies are pulled from the cold, restless water along the rugged coastline north of San Francisco. Most of the victims are middle-aged ...

A commercial abalone diver has been given a wholly suspended jail sentence by a Hobart court after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge. Philip Geoffrey Pyke, 45, yesterday admitted to lying about ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California wildlife managers have reduced the season to dive for red abalone by two months and sharply cut the amount of the mollusks divers can catch this year because of ...