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Posted on 12/12/2025 3:03:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
The California Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to extend the ban on abalone harvesting in Northern California until 2036, citing the decline in red abalone populations and ongoing environmental challenges.
This is the longest extension for this ban since the initial 2018 closure.
"Monterey Abalone Company is one of only two abalone farms left on the California coast. The farm caters to a small number of walk-up clientele and white tablecloth restaurants, where a plate of two or three red abalone might go anywhere from $56 to $80 dollars. Today, farms offer the only legal way to eat Californian abalone, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Yay.
By 2036 nobody will remember, and government will have stomped on the people with ease.
I’m one of those boomers who remember prying those babies off rocks at low tide with a tire iron. They were ubiquitous, everywhere. Who could have thought there would be nothing left?
2036..why not 2525 or 10,191...I mean if they want to really save the fish..then save the fish!!!!!!
There aren’t that many sea otters.
Abalone is present in Korean and other Asian cooking I believe.
Asians also use gas stoves for on-table BBQ and woks? Which CA is also set to ban.
Me too. went diving for the tasty treats before a date with my wife — one of our firsts- I had to finally quit when I developed respiration issues. Diving was where I noticed it first, but it kept getting worse until we discovered by accident that I was suffering from sleep apnea. Getting better now with treatment, but probably will never get back to diving.
Sad. I started ab diving about 10 years old. I’ve taken my share. The last couple of years before the ban I could tell that the abalones were wasting away. The foot no longer filled the shell completely.
I remember in 1976, taking my soon to be wife out to dinner at Scoma’s Restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. We had full plates of wild caught garlic roasted Abalone for less than 20 bucks a plate. Now I wouldn’t even think of going to San Francisco.
Maybe Newsom will put up signs in Sea Otter ,LOL
This is Pop Proctor Doheny around early 1960's. Taught us kids how to grab dinner:
Used to run over to Catalina Island with Dad to dive for abalone.
Brought home, mom would fry up a bunch.
Nothing better!
California is governed by criminals and inhabited by imbeciles.
Spent my early years in the San Francisco Bay Area, when Kalifornia was California and Reagan Country.
Every couple years there was human/shark incident in Bodega Bay. In Kalifornia, you cannot use aqualung to dive for abalone. Only free diving, holding your breath. I later found out why it is not a really good idea to dive in Bodega Bay, and why there are so many shark encounters. Sharks go there to mate.
I’ve only had abalone once, at a nice restaurant in the SF Bay Area. Like rubber. Give me Penobscot Bay scallops anytime.
Unfortunately, those imbeciles are moving to Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and have already destroyed Oregon and Washington like the viruses they are.
I remember family vacations in Monterrey and seeing yards that had huge piles of abalone shells for yard decorations.
I would say this would be a great time for more farms to open up to feed the demand but it’s California. No way they’ll allow any more offshore farming off the California Coast
California needs a ban on baloney, amirite?
In contrast, we did a 2-week cruise around the southern 1/3rd or more of Japan back in April. There was aquaculture all over the place.
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