Next she poached two pieces of abalone for a few seconds each in abalone broth.
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There are as many different ways to prepare abalone meat as there are abalone species—that is, hundreds.
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When the abalone dies, the shell falls apart into pieces and provides the resources for the next generation of abalone.
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There are several species of abalone but the one commercially harvested in South Africa is the South African abalone or Haliotis midae.
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Dishes at this three Michelin star restaurant include abalone braised in 11 year-old soy sauce served with seaweed and abalone liver, as well as soymilk panna cotta.
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It wasn't until the 1920s when a chef named Ernest Doelter invented the abalone steak—tenderized abalone fried in butter—that the sea snail became popular with Euro-Americans.
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With that is usually braised abalone—abalone is definitely served on Chinese restaurant menus, but that, along with honey walnut shrimp, is something I only ever have at weddings.
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Last year, California closed its red abalone fishery, which poured an estimated $44 million into the coastal economy per year, and Oregon suspended permits for its 300 abalone divers for three years.
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On the plate, "whimsically ebullient blue umami" translates to a shellfish course: grilled local abalone garnished with abalone liver, roasted garlic, egg "jam," oyster-scented cream and a tangy gelatinized mignonette sauce.
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Abalone Bio: Founded by serial life sciences entrepreneurs, Abalone Bio is using libraries of yeast cells expressing billions of antibody variants to grow specific antibodies that can activate or inhibit a drug target.
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The report, by TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network, found that the region's abalone population is on the verge of collapse, with an estimated 96 million abalone illegally harvested between 2000 and 2016.
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"He'd sell an abalone dinner for a nickel," says Seavey.
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They bought fish maw and mollusks, abalone and sea cucumber.
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Known locally as perlemoen, abalone plays an important ecological role.
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You might see kelp, mussels, abalone, chitons and sandcastle worms.
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Kendra Scott Elton Gold Pinch Bracelet in Abalone Shell, $65; kendrascott.
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Look at these lovely abalone, or sea snails, ready for shucking.
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"Abalone have been harvested heavily in kelp beds, so now poachers try rougher areas or deeper and more exposed places," said Serge Raemaekers, a researcher from the University of Cape Town, who has studied the abalone trade.
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In their absence, abalone numbers exploded and proceed to vacuum up kelp.
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Monterey Abalone Co. sells their product for up to $23 a pound.
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Abalone store their energy as glycogen; they don't store it as fat.
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The abalone are kept in boxy cages, organized vertically like a file drawer.
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He didn't find abalone or Parmigiano-Reggiano in a New York City Greenmarket.
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They braised abalone and shiitake mushrooms over bok choy for Chinese New Year.
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Before long, he was diving for lobster and abalone off the Malibu coast.
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The standard method is a chemical method, but Angie looks at the abalone shell.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch lists Chinese abalone as a product to be avoided.
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In Hong Kong, only one out of 29 samples of "abalone" was correctly labeled.
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California's coastal tribes depend on the abalone that dine on kelp and are suffering.
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The Mie Prefecture Fishery Adjustment Regulations states that no abalone may be harvested from Sep.
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The next, he's rifling through his stockroom, searching for a hidden stash of dried abalone.
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If abalone can build this, can't we get living things to build what we need?
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There are only a handful of abalone farms in America, most of them on land.
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Exactly. That sink is made of abalone; you just don't see design like that anymore.
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In February, Raeburn Jansson died trying to poach abalone in the waters off Cape Town.
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Costco serves up a version of jeonbokjuk, a rice porridge made with abalone (sea snails).
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Abalone seasoning is used for the chicken feet, rather than its cheaper cousin, oyster sauce.
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In 2016 alone, the value of the illegal abalone trade was estimated at $57 million.
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About 90 percent of South Africa's abalone is destined for upscale restaurants in Hong Kong.
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But sea otters whack abalone shells with rocks; octopuses build fortresses by stacking coconut shells.
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Zeroing in on a Hopi silver ring inlaid with white abalone, he asked to try it.
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Buying farmed abalone remains the only way for American consumers to purchase the California mollusks legally.
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The co-op primarily employed Japanese workers who shucked, trimmed, sliced, pounded, packaged, and shipped abalone.
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The abalone, edible sea snails that are a prized delicacy, also depend on kelp for food.
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The state is likely to close the abalone fisheries for the next two seasons as well.
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And without abalone, the restaurants, campgrounds, hotels and businesses that depend on those visitors are struggling.
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The reef also supports two of Australia's most valuable commercial fishing products: abalone and rock lobster.
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The wild species is similar to spinach, and is often used in soups, sautéed, or thrown into salads, but at Noma Australia, the salty greens are added to their famous abalone dish, "Nomamite," a playful take on Vegemite served with abalone schnitzel, native nuts, and local seaweeds.
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Luckily for workers at the Monterey Abalone Co., death on the job is not something to fear.
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The state moved to save the snails, and in 1997 commercial abalone fishing was banned in California.
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Two still-squirming palm-sized abalone are shucked and then pounded with a mallet under plastic wrap.
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Ms. Bodt chose iridescent abalone-shell colors — blues, greens, purples and cool pinks that range in intensity.
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Belcher's favorite example is the abalone shell, which is highly structured at the nanoscale, lightweight, and sturdy.
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Only around a third of the abalone taken from southern African waters is legal, the report said.
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Styrofoam crates filled with squid, abalone, mackerel, salmon roe and gaping-mouthed tuna heads were stacked high.
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Some researchers are studying proteins in abalone shells in hopes of creating stronger body armor, for instance.
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Abalone have a rough domed shell, the outside of which has a line of alien-like respiratory pores.
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At that time, my father was the general manager of the abalone processing cooperative in Monterey Bay, Calif.
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As a result, abalone smuggling has become an important part of the underground economy in many fishing communities.
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For commercial divers working for legal abalone fisheries, the work is done under safer conditions, for less pay.
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The abalone are fed local kelp, and tidal currents sweep away any waste left behind by the flattened snails.
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Commercial catches are now severely restricted, and recreational fishing for abalone has been banned for more than a decade.
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For Richard Pinson, one of the owners of Red Claw Seafood, which supplies the abalone, it was a revelation.
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Soy-braised abalone is served in an anchovy broth that is, if not exactly subtle, at least soft-spoken.
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One shows a bundle of sage, tied with a ceremonial red yarn, that she placed in an abalone shell.
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But, in South Korea you can also order a pork cutlet, bulgogi bake, abalone porridge, and blueberry yogurt smoothie.
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In South Africa, he spends a little more camera time establishing the connection between poaching and the decimation of abalone.
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"I'm not sure if I ever dreamed I could have raised abalone if I wasn't getting high," he tells me.
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Shop owner Lin Ying Jui says trade for his abalone, edible birds nests and natural medicines is the worst in decades.
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Armed with crowbars, hard-hat divers would spend hours collecting abalone in Monterey Bay and, eventually, along the whole California coast.
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Sunflower sea stars eat abalone and urchins, and those populations have exploded in some areas in the absence of the stars.
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Despite the prospect of fines and prison terms, poachers are driven by a strong economic incentive because abalone fetches high prices.
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When abalone was more abundant, it was common for divers to harvest 150 pounds or more on a single diving trip.
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Yet the abalone was scarce, and they got only enough to earn around $120 each — barely worth the risk, they said.
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This year, for the first time, California state fishery managers closed the region's recreational red abalone fisheries for the entire season.
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Mr. Tallman inherited the store from his father, whose picture hangs on the wall alongside abalone shells the size of basketballs.
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In addition to Costco classics, you can also order a pork cutlet, bulgogi bake, abalone porridge, or a blueberry yogurt smoothie.
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In one gallery: haunting First Nations masks dating back to the 1700s, bedecked with abalone, sea lion whiskers and human hair.
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There's a reason the René Redzepis of the world rave about native ingredients like Tasmanian abalone, lantana blossoms and pink peppercorns.
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Judging from the map, this coastal nation boasts a dense, old-growth rainforest and a lush island where fishermen dive for abalone.
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Seavey and his partner Trevor Fay hold around 300,000 red abalone, the biggest and most coveted species, in their sub-wharf farm.
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In contrast, China's oceanic farms, where most of the world's abalone is grown, are massive and disrupt marine habitats by removing predators.
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Abalone can be found along much of South Africa's coast, but their numbers have been declining rapidly because of overfishing and poaching.
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Both had recently begun using scuba equipment without proper training, friends and family said, in order to access abalone on deeper reefs.
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To the Yurok and other tribes, the regalia, resplendent with abalone and the scarlet crests of woodpeckers, are a dazzling life force.
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Across the street at Makau Nui, the Hawaiian carver Benjamin Muti makes intricate pendants in cattle bone, marlin bill, abalone and more.
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Abalone, an Ama's most profitable catch, takes 4 years to reach its legal size and can sell for up to $40 a pound.
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Large sections of rocky coast were covered in seaweed and abalone, apparently lifted out of the sea by the force of the quake.
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Those who have free-dived for abalone say that they love the buttery taste, but that flavor alone isn't why they do it.
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Or you watched as a scientist made a man part-abalone, giving him supermollusk strength and unbreakable skin, in 2016's Luke Cage.
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Due to the small number of growers and the sheer amount of labor that goes into farming them, abalone are a high-priced item.
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With few options to make a living back then, women learned to dive for abalone, sea cucumber, and other delicacies to sell at markets.
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Abalone grow slowly, taking seven years to reach sexual maturity and one or two more to reach the minimum size to be taken legally.
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I definitely had a picky phase in my childhood, anything that was gelatinous and weird like jellyfish or abalone—I'd refuse to eat it.
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I've had it with crab, maybe with cheap canned crab, in a restaurant—usually, at a nice place, it's abalone, crab, or dried scallop.
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Mr. Miller told me stories about rabbit hunting in the Clairemont neighborhood and how local kids used to go abalone fishing off the coast.
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In Toba city, Ama forage for seafood like abalone, sea urchin and lobster, but their numbers are threatened by an aging population and climate change.
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Caring for hundreds of thousands of abalone is a high-maintenance job, explains Andrew Kim, an aquaculturist who's worked below the wharf for two years.
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They began harvesting the abalone, drying them, and sending shipments back to Asia, where the snails are revered for their supposed medicinal and aphrodisiac qualities.
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Abalone was quickly grilled, sliced and sent back to its shell with dashi, briny threads of sea bean and a live-wire dab of yuzukosho.
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Only this schnitty, as they call it Down Under, is made not from veal or chicken, but from abalone fished in the waters of Tasmania.
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Finally, here's a book about abalone poaching in South Africa that reads like a movie treatment: "Point Break" meets Bikini Bottom, but played for noir.
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Bake, the Trinidadian bread that is not baked but fried, is topped with slices of lardo and local abalone instead of the traditional shark bits.
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Activities also include digging for volcanic rock and abalone, conch and other seashells at a table of black sand that's reminiscent of beaches on Maui.
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Notable dishes include Jerome Galis green asparagus with raw and marinated kibinago, as well as Korean abalone with black pepper, vinegar-seasoned tomato compote and oxtail.
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And what an abalone does is gather up components of the stuff in the seawater and creates an incredibly strong yet light and sufficiently flexible shell.
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"Reds," as Fay and Seavey call them, are the most common abalone species on the West Coast and the only one that is legal to collect.
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Not long ago, it was a prime spot to harvest abalone, and the very reef the tug now sits upon remains habitat for the endangered species.
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Quotas for the legal abalone fishery have been slashed by nearly 85 percent since the mid-1990s, with three formerly productive zones closed entirely to fishing.
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The men, who were carrying a cooler to disguise their catch as a picnic, were gambling on finding undisturbed abalone beds in a highly visible area.
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The Pacific bigeye tuna, scraped from the fish with an abalone shell, has a rough variety of textures that keeps your attention as you eat it.
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The abalone never got around to building batteries, but Belcher realized this same fundamental process could be implemented in viruses to build useful materials for humans.
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The black bean sauce with steamed spare ribs tastes especially savory; the abalone sauce on the chicken feet a bit richer than the typical oyster sauce.
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Ms. Jaramillo's menu is wide ranging, with dishes like binchotan-grilled abalone, chawanmushi with mushrooms, and duck rillettes served à la carte and on tasting menus.
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For around five hours a day during the fishing season, the haenyeo dive to collect octopus, sea mustard, sea cucumber, and, if they're big enough, abalone.
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Customers can opt for baited hooks to snag rainbow trout, salmon trout, fluke, shrimp, flounder, farmed striped bass, rockfish, lobster or abalone swimming in the pools.
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She thought he might be attempting to send abalone out of the country but (and please read this in your best Chuck Testa voice) nope, Dudleya.
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It is down here—among monstrous barnacles, colorful starfish, squawky seagulls, frisky otters, and lazy seals—that one of California's few abalone producers farms its prized mollusks.
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Two to three times a week, workers must take a boat out on Monterey Bay to collect fresh kelp for the abalone—nearly three tons a week.
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At noma they tenderize the abalone by hammering it, bread and fry it, then plate it with bush lime and a bunch of weird and wonderful seaweeds.
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Without sustainable management, Mexican fishers three decades from now would see their maximum potential catch drop as much as 44%, as in the case of pacific abalone.
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During the journey he will be briefed on their role in combatting the poaching of abalone, considered one of South Africa's most significant illegal wildlife trade concerns.
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A little otter must have watched a hundred times the way its mother took a rock and rapped the abalone smartly on the side until it let go.
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The AP reported that "urchin barrens," or areas with nothing but the creatures, have spread to Oregon and are damaging fisheries for red abalone and red sea urchins.
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A pair of 21961th-century Japanese screens at Gregg Baker (Booth 21) feature a fall scene and a cherry tree made of blossoms created from crushed abalone shells.
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The devastation is also economic: Until now, red abalone and red sea urchins, a larger and meatier species of urchin, supported a thriving commercial fishery in both states.
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Harry will travel to Seal Island, Kalk Bay with the City of Cape Town Marine Unit to learn about their role in combating the poaching of abalone (shellfish).
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"We understand that the kelp beds are not just food for abalone, but they're food for a lot of other things and a habitat for other things," says Seavey.
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Overfishing, the return of sea otter populations, and a disease called "withering foot syndrome" all contributed to the demise of abalone throughout the 70s and up to the present.
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At Old Fisherman's Grotto, an iconic restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf, a recreational wharf across from Municipal Wharf No. 2, executive chef Juan Ponce prepares a dish of Seavey's abalone.
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To see The Monterey Abalone Company's product, you must crawl down a trapdoor ladder in their tiny office at the end of Municipal Wharf No. 2 on Monterey Bay.
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Among impacts, a 2011 marine heat wave off western Australia killed abalone stocks and a 2012 heat wave off the eastern United States drove lobster stocks north towards Canada.
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On the Tuesday afternoon following our meal at Matsuhisa, two prep cooks, both young women, were slicing abalone and segmenting satsumas, while a dishwasher cleared a backlog of pots.
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All four men, who died over the past few months, were casualties of an entrenched illicit trade: poaching abalone, a seafood delicacy that sells for enormous prices in Asia.
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These are the haenyeo of Jeju island, who dive up to 30 feet deep for conch, abalone and seaweed while holding their breath for several minutes at a time.
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A team of volunteers rescued thousands of abalone, a large shellfish known locally as paua, that had been thrown up from the sea bed and left high and dry.
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But there are tons of other amazing discounts — which means, yes, you can get the abalone shell statement earrings Blake Lively wore on Valentine's Day last year for way less!
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Their sucking strength is not to be underestimated: Free divers have reportedly drowned while trying to pry stubborn abalone off rocks with their hands, trapping their fingers in the process.
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During that time, the abalone industry disappeared, and returning families were forced to eke out a meager living as housekeepers and domestics while trying to get back on their feet.
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Like the salad, the dish cost $8 and stole the thunder from my entree, a succulent if slightly undercooked hay-cured poussin (whole chicken) with string beans and abalone mushrooms.
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Her slyly voluptuous "carbonara" of abalone livers and egg yolks is a homage to Tokyo-style wafu spaghetti with briny pickled cod roe — only here it's capped with shaved truffles.
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That&aposs because these eight-tentacled outsiders love to chow down on shellfish such as abalone and rock lobster, which make up the most-profitable fisheries in the region, Oceana reported.
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Abalone shells were used as mixing dish, and the bitumen was heated with metavolcanic pebbles before applying the substance to the basket by hand using the bone of a sea mammal.
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The first examines carjacking in Newark, where Mr. Williams once lived, and the second goes farther afield with a look at the poaching of abalone off the coast of South Africa.
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For more than 853,285 years, abalone has been served to celebrate special occasions and honor guests, taking a pride of place alongside other luxury ingredients like shark fin and sea cucumber.
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When abalone was more plentiful closer to shore, the greatest threat to poachers was arrest, and the authorities continue to patrol the remaining patches where the mollusk can still be found.
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A Tsimshian headdress frontlet from 230th-century British Columbia, on the other hand, in which squares of iridescent green abalone shell alternate with grimacing faces, was clearly intended for the ages.
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According to Markus Burgener, a senior program officer with Traffic, a nonprofit organization that monitors wildlife smuggling, poachers have stripped more than 40,000 tons of abalone from South African waters since 2000.
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Hong Kong Journal HONG KONG — On a bustling Hong Kong street lined with dried seafood stores, where baskets of sea cucumber vie for space with scallops and abalone, one shop stands out.
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" Matt Kraemer posted on Facebook that he and his partner were diving for paua -- a type of abalone -- on Friday when they encountered a "particularly aggressive" sea lion with "lion-sized jaws.
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The haenyeo opened up to Kim about how other photographers had captured them carrying heavy caches of abalone, tired and with unphotogenic expressions on their faces―only natural given their heavy loads.
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In uncertain times like these, it can seem like there is little else to do but hold your loved ones close, even if said loved one happens to be an abalone named Davey.
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To Van Hook, the cause was clear: The Crescent City Harbor District had stopped dredging the harbor a few years earlier, and it was filling up with mud, leaving his abalone without oxygen.
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But 96% of red abalone have disappeared from California's northern coast as the number of purple sea urchins increased six fold, according to a study released this week by the University of California, Davis.
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I foresaw my own undoing in the slow, clumsy flight of pelicans over Lake Maurepas, out beyond The fishermen in their peeling boats, in a sky iridescent as the inside of an abalone shell.
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But the waters surrounding Robben Island, just off the coast near Cape Town, also happen to be among the richest in the world for delicious shellfish — especially abalone, which is highly prized in Asia.
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The fisheries department says that two-thirds of the abalone it confiscates from poachers are younger and smaller than the legal minimum, and that the waters around Robben Island have been particularly hard hit.
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But in Hangberg, hundreds of families have turned to the abalone black market for income, as factory closings and the demise of commercial fishing have contributed to a spike in unemployment in recent years.
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With his scraggly beard and pencils tucked into his cap, Mr. Smith showed off his training guitar recently: a black walnut and spruce beauty with a cursive "Smith" inlaid in abalone on the neck.
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In what has to be the absolute best-case scenario, we learn that K-pop idol G-Dragon's fridge is obscenely well-stocked with whole truffles from Paris and abalone the size of a Frisbee.
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Formal employment is hard to find in the township, a clutch of small government homes and metal shacks at the end of a dirt track, and many men have begun diving for abalone, residents said.
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Her spotters carry shark-attack kits with tourniquets, pressure bandages and saline drips, and she suggests anyone who regularly puts themselves in proximity to sharks (surfers, say, or abalone divers) should pack a similar kit.
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Mr. Williams assumes that when shantytown residents cheer for the abalone poachers, it's to celebrate their escape from the police, but you may wonder whether they were just responding to the presence of a camera crew.
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Into this diorama-like depiction of their habits and habitat — the wet suits, the plunges, the nets of abalone and seaweed — the playwright herself eventually wanders, or an obvious stand-in for her named Ha Young.
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"Shark's fin is one of the 'four treasures' of Chinese dried seafood, along with fish maw, dried abalone and sea cucumber," said Daisann McLane, director of the gourmet food tour company Little Adventures in Hong Kong.
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But now resource depletion is changing the risk calculus, with divers forced to try to find abalone in turbulent waters and areas known to be frequented by sharks, making death a bigger part of the poaching equation.
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Over the process of tens of millions of years, the abalone evolved so that its DNA produces proteins that extract calcium molecules from the mineral-rich aquatic environment and deposit it in ordered layers on its body.
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Most affected the once-abalone rich Atlantic waters off South Africa's Western Cape province, where chronic poverty and joblessness drive mostly young men to risk shark attack and take the dive in search of the gourmet mollusk.
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"Driven by sophisticated transnational criminal networks and local gangs, the illegal abalone trade has been fueled by deeply entrenched socio-economic disparities in the Western Cape, bitterly contested fishing quotas, drugs, and gang violence," the report says.
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After a busy Tuesday morning that saw the couple visit a mental wellness group at Monwabisi Beach and Harry take a solo trip to learn about combating the poaching of abalone, Meghan and Harry visited the Auwal Mosque.
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A dispute dating to the 17th century A Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs primer on the islands claims they have been part of Japan since the 503s, when ships were sent there to hunt sea lions and harvest abalone.
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But Lyricks and JL figured it out, and the result is the excellent "A-Zn Foods," which serves as a primer for Asian foods from abalone and rice to… nah, we don't want to give that last verse away.
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Once harvested, the shellfish enters a network of buyers and middlemen, and is predominantly shipped to Hong Kong, where dried South African abalone is worth over $200 a pound, meaning large profits for those further up the supply chain.
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He grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania, picked up a degree in environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and proceeded to spend the next 30 years running an abalone farm in Crescent City, California.
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The pojangmacha we went to reminded H of home: Jeju Island, a rocky crag off the southern coast of the peninsula where they have their own dialect and the women are famous for harvesting abalone and sea cucumbers from the ocean.
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For the hearty course called shiizakana , which typically features a meaty soup or stew, Nakayama serves pasta: a swirl of spaghetti alla chitarra, tossed in a creamy ragu of abalone liver and pickled cod roe, topped with Burgundy black truffles.
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At a lavish gala last month to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Asia World port terminal, guests dined on abalone and watched a video on the history of Yangon port complete with quotes from Rudyard Kipling.
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"I am wearing gold lamé high-heeled boots, iridescent necklace sculptures made from an extraordinarily rare abalone, and a crown made of diamonds, with LEDs embedded inside them," said Mr. Lanier, who, not incidentally, pioneered the field of virtual reality.
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The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has a 100,000-gallon saltwater tank, designed to mirror the Northern California coast, where you can see abalone, urchins both purple and red, sunflower starfish and bull kelp bobbing near the surface.
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Oregon Dungeness crab stewed with tomatoes and ají dulce peppers, a twist on an abalone dish Ms. Blamey ate in Chile as a girl, is stuffed between layers of puff pastry to make a cross between an empanada and pithivier.
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That means using technology to transform familiar foods into exotic forms; deploying luxury ingredients like foie gras, abalone and king crab; experimenting with foraged food like plankton and sea buckthorn; and presenting every dish in a way that is highly Instagrammable.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Poverty and crime in South Africa are driving a surge in the illegal harvesting off its shores of the abalone, a large sea snail coveted as a delicacy in some parts of Asia, a report said on Tuesday.
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One of the world's most expensive abalone species, Haliotis midae, occurs only on the southern and western shores of South Africa, where its high value, set amid sweeping poverty, has fueled a poaching epidemic since the end of apartheid in the early 21990s.
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In a desolate informal settlement near the town of Gansbaai, divers with no historical connection to the fishing industry have taken to swimming nearly two miles out to Dyer Island, a global hot spot for shark cage diving, to hunt in comparatively untouched abalone beds.
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Yet, the syndicates controlling the poaching have shown little interest in sustainability: They are Chinese criminal groups who source abalone from local street gangs, often in exchange for drugs like methamphetamine, according to police officials and a report from the Institute for Security Studies.
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Three of them pulled on tattered wet suits as the fourth kept watch; a few minutes later, they splashed into the frigid water with snorkels and began hunting for "perlemoen," the Afrikaans term for abalone, derived from "mother-of-pearl," for the shell's inner sheen.
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Each gathering incorporates not only lectures and workshops on subjects like carbon-footprint reduction, but also events like singalongs, Vedic breathing exercises, live-chicken decapitation and endless waves of innovative food like cauliflower ceviche tostadas, raw abalone, pork cracklings and goat-milk ice cream.
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But Lu is hoping that this is just the beginning, with company officials saying the ultimate aim is for several flights a week using a bigger Boeing 747 freighter that will carry not only milk, but also other fresh Tasmanian products such as salmon and abalone.
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Looking like a Seder plate from one of Saturn's moons, the schnitzel dish involves a tender, crispy-battered half-disk of abalone surrounded by an orbiting green array of native Australian delights, a few of which are obscure enough that most Australians would never consider eating them.
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In a dimly-lit room he kneels by piled straw mats draped in white, said to be a resting place for the goddess, as two shrine maidens bring in offerings of food, from rice to abalone, for Naruhito to use in filling 32 plates made from oak leaves.
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Maggie Hoskie inhabits a world only a few years in our future, where energy wars have culminated in a cataclysmic flooding called the Big Water, and the Navajo reservation has saved itself with supernatural help, sprouting enormous walls of white shell, turquoise, abalone and jet around its borders.
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The underwater annihilation is killing off important fisheries for red abalone and red sea urchins and creating such havoc that scientists in California are partnering with a private business to collect the over-abundant purple urchins and "ranch" them in a controlled environment for ultimate sale to a global seafood market.
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Here's what comes inside:Tuna from Oma, AomoriJapanese puffer fish from HyogoRed sea bream from NagasakiLongtooth Grouper from NagasakiOval squid from NagasakiKuruma prawn from EhimeSteamed abalone from MiyazakiBoiled conger eel from MiyazakiBoiled horsehair crab from HokkaidoSalted herring roe from HokkaidoSalmon roe pickled in soy sauce from HokkaidoRaw sea urchin from Hokkaido
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The sea stacks, hidden 50 meters (164 feet) beneath the water and 12 kilometers (7.46 miles) away from the Twelve Apostles, were discovered by sonar technology as part of a project to map the reef habitats along Australia's south coast and survey sea life such as rock lobster and abalone.
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I am speaking, of course, of Cardi B's Grammys entrance as Venus emerging from her clam in vintage Thierry Mugler (circa 1995), her top half covered in a nude body suit and molded bustier, her bottom half in black velvet that exploded into a pink satin abalone frame around her pearl-encrusted waist.
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Most of the nigiri are either $6 or $8; more prized items such as chu-toro and shiro ebi, the tiny white shrimp that have to be pressed together by the dozen to make a single piece, are $10 each, and a small handful of rare treats like Japanese abalone and sea urchin are $12.
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The proposed rule would create reporting requirements for 13 different species of at-risk fish when they are being imported into the U.S. Those species include abalone; Atlantic cod; Pacific cod; blue crab; red king crab; dolphinfish (mahi mahi); grouper; red snapper; sea cucumber; shrimp; shark; swordfish; and albacore, bigeye, skipjack and yellowfin tuna.
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During day two of their tour in Africa, the royal couple shared a sweet kiss before heading off in different cars — Harry, 35, was undertaking a solo engagement to learn how locals were working to combat poaching of abalone while Meghan, 38, went back to check on their 4-month-old son, Archie, who was with his nanny.
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Guests included Jordan Walters, a former college roommate; Matt FX, the D.J., producer and music supervisor for "Broad City," with one of his current artists, Synead, the R&B inflected singer-songwriter; and Ian Purkayastha, whose company supplies top New York chefs and Mr. Reider with culinary exotica like truffles, caviar, abalone and whatever else has recently been foraged, caught or farmed.
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On the first day, I ate live abalone (which was interesting, but frankly I remember more as a fact than as a flavor) but what I really wanted, what I wasn't leaving without (because maybe I would come back to Seoul someday but once the closing ceremonies wrapped I was never making it back to the otherwise uninteresting city on the other side of Korea) was snow crabs.
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Egg rolls, fortune cookies, soup dumplings, dried jellyfish, beef and broccoli, sesame noodles, crab rangoon, hot and sour soup, fried rice, chop suey, Peking roasted duck, spring rolls, chow mein, kung pao chicken, duck's heads, stir fry, dim sum, congee, caterpillar fungus duck, jade rabbit sea cucumber, braised abalone, I could go on... Although I am very fond of Chinese food, it is exceedingly hard to find good Chinese restaurants, so finding frozen Chinese food in my grocery store was a godsend.
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And a few miles away, in the Palms neighborhood, the best-known dish at Niki Nakayama's n/naka is the pasta that materializes in the middle of her otherwise recognizably Japanese kaiseki: Derived from a genre of food called yoshoku — dishes borrowed from the West and freely altered with local ingredients to satisfy Japanese tastes — her spaghetti is glossed with mentaiko (pickled cod roe), as it might appear in Japan, then strewn with petals of razor-cut abalone and black truffles.
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