Abalone is the most expensive shellfish in the world. Today, a pound of wild abalone runs approximately $80, though the price could vary depending on the type and where it comes from. Still, if you're ...

A marine snail on the brink of extinction is getting help from Whatcom researchers and the Lummi Nation as Washington expands restoration efforts for the pinto abalone. The pinto abalone is the only ...

Inside one of the state’s last commercial operations for shiny mollusks. An assortment of live abalone at American Abalone Farms in Davenport. (Photo by Charles Russo) Tom Ebert has always had one ...

A federal research lab in Manchester is ground zero for saving a species of abalone — a type of shellfish — that state scientists are fearful will go extinct without action. The pinto abalone — known ...