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White
Abalone
White abalone are on the verge of extinction. That's a pretty
surprising place for these animals to be; for decades, scientists have believed
that extincting a marine invertebrate would be an incredibly difficult task to
accomplish. It looks like commercial and recreational harvesting of these
animals, with the "help" of CDFG and FGC laissez-faire management policies
(before finally closing the fishery in 1993, annual commercial landings
in pounds, had shrunk to single and
double digits), has accomplished the incredibly difficult.
White
abalone were listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in May
of 2001. The following is a list of on-line articles detailing the dire state
of southern and Baja California's White Abalone.
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