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My job is to write about the wonders and challenges of our coast and oceans, but I’ll admit: Before this story, I had no idea what an abalone looked like. 
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A Pleasanton man who was overcome by rough seas became the latest person to die in Northern California while diving for abalone, officials said.
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In this week’s crime blotter: a bust gone wrong, a butterfly smuggling ring, and a scooter pangolin heist.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Reminders that enforcement is not without its difficulties and is never a "slam dunk."
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The National Marine Fisheries Services has decided not to grant federal protection to the pinto abalone, a prized six-inch sea snail whose population has severely declined in Northern California.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
I have not yet fully read the report yet, but it can be found here:
From my general knowledge of abs, I am a bit surprised by this finding. While never as numerous as greens, reds, blacks, etc., pintos have been comparatively scare for quite sometime. A cog in the serial depletion wheel that was commercial abalone harvesting on the western coast of North America from the late 1800s to the 1980s, Pintos were hammered into much lower abundances than their pre-disturbance conditions. As we have seen with many species of broadcast spawners, these downward trajectories in density usually translate into downward spirals in encounter rate. Not a good thing for critters like these.
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