Could Black Abalone Return En Masse to the California Coast? With a Trial Translocation from the Channel Islands, Scientists Aim to Find Out (U.S. National Park Service)
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Ask anyone who grew up in coastal California in the mid-20th century and they will tell you that during any visit to the rocky shores, you’d encounter black abalone…and a lot of them!
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Helping Whales Avoid Ships Off the California Coast - Bay Nature
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Debris flows bury endangered black abalone – SIMoN
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Scientists measure extent of recovery for critically endangered black abalone
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Black Mountain (U.S. National Park Service)
Abalones cling to life as recovery plan forms - The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish [1 ed.] 0870719882, 2019054126, 9780870719882, 9780870719899
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The ecology of giant kelp forests in California - USGS National
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Biologists Survey for Endangered Black Abalone (U.S. National Park Service)
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A Decade of Scuba Effort Reevaluates Approach for Surveying White Abalone (Haliotis sorenseni Bartsch, 1940)