Pairs of abalones will then be placed directly on the rocks. If the project works as well as the scientists hope, some folks are going to be spending a lot of time under the water in the years ahead. A former science writer for the Los Angeles Times, he now lives in Juneau, Alaska. The appetite for white abalones has left their numbers dangerously depleted. Replenishing the population requires a lot of diving.
Abalone defines California the same way that Maine lobster defines Maine.
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