Science Institute News Recent accomplishments of CDFW's scientific community Replenishing Southern California’s Abalone Populations May 31, 2018 in General Harvesting abalone for dinner used to be as fundamental to a Southern California lifestyle as fish tacos and flip-flops. But by 1998, a combination of overfishing and disease led to the closure of all abalone fishery south of San Francisco. Tagged With: abalone, conservation, mollusk, recovery, stocking, white abalone Saving California’s White Abalone August 17, 2017 in Wildlife Research California’s coastal waters are home to seven species of abalone, and all but one are endangered or listed as species of special concern. The white abalone in particular has been nearly decimated by overfishing and disease, and scientists can find no evidence that the remaining population is reproducing in the wild. Tagged With: abalone, biology, California, captive breeding, CDFW, endangered, environmental science, Fish and Wildlife, invertebrate, marine, marine management news, mollusk, research, White Abalone Recovery Consortium
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