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White abalone, Haliotis sorenseni, from a series of Pacific Coast abalone.

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Saving the White Abalone is Part of a Much Bigger Story

The current effort to bring back the white abalone is one of numerous projects underway in California to revive the state’s once-thriving marine environment. White abalone If you grew up in Southern California in the 1970s, there were a few things that defined California: surfing, skateboarding, the Eagles (preferably on the radio while driving down the Pacific Coast Highway) and abalone. The…

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[Id: a photo of a handmade pin. The pin is a leaf-shaped carving of white abalone. Gold wire is threaded through each end of the leaf, bent to spell out the name "Lydia" in cursive over the leaf. End id.]

Custome piece. No other identifying features.

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suuuuper late belated birthday gift for the lovely @24cr! enjoy your twenties while they last ;P

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Article - To bring back abalone, researchers aim to outsmart octopus  - Sea Grant

Preliminary analysis of the data records showed that while a few of the octopuses had managed to remove their tags, most of the animals had left the array almost immediately after being released. That suggests that the home range of the local octopus population was far greater than previously estimated

Hofmeister is now working with the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to inform their stocking protocol for white abalone. In a second experiment off the coast of San Diego, where octopus populations had just dropped in population, the researchers saw far less octopus predation on the stocked abalone. While an octopus survey is not a simple undertaking—involving divers peeking under every rock and into every crevice they can find—it may make the difference between success and disaster. “Starting density of octopus at an outplant site is a key piece of information,” says Hofmeister.

Hofmeister hopes that her research will help increase knowledge of a fascinating but understudied species, while providing practical information that can help save the endangered white abalone.

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White Abalone

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WHITE ABALONE NEAR EXTINCTION

Once there were millions in the coastal waters off southern California.  Now, after intensive harvesting and poaching, there are a few thousand.  Most individuals are too old or too far away from each other to reproduce, according to a study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 

A NOAA official suggests that this finding should spark new urgency about "captive breeding."

Photo: Southwest Fisheries Science Center