The California Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to extend the ban on abalone harvesting in Northern California until 2036, citing the decline in red abalone populations and ongoing ...

On Dec. 11, the California Fish and Game Commission voted to extend the closure of the recreational red abalone fishery for another decade, keeping the ban in place until April 2036. The fishery has ...

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 ...