SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Fireworks and red lanterns mark the Lunar New Year across Asia, but the festivities herald abalone poaching season in Australia and New Zealand. The multi-million dollar ...

Spotters for abalone poachers in the small tourist town of Hermanus on South Africa’s southernmost coast spot the police from afar and often mock them as they try to clamp down on the burgeoning ...

(KRON) — A probation search of a driver and his vehicle in Windsor on Wednesday uncovered dozens of illegally harvested red abalone along with methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, police said. A ...

Excessive abalone collection and its illegal sale on the black market threaten the sustainability of wild populations, ...

(KRON) — California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials recently issued seven tickets to people poaching red abalone on the Sonoma, Mendocino and Humboldt county coasts. “Coinciding with a ...

The following questions were asked on the state Department of Fish & Wildlife website: QUESTION: As an avid abalone diver, it is disturbing to see all of the poaching going on. It is also disturbing ...

(KRON) — A man in possession of over a dozen poached red abalone was arrested in Sonoma County, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Wednesday. The suspect, who was not identified ...

POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE -- Rangers have cited or arrested 10 people on California's north coast suspected of illegally taking abalone, a struggling species with strict fishing limits. Point ...

The number of abalone poachers arrested on the Eastern Cape coast had risen from 129 in 2003 to 168 in 2004, according to Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk. Although ...

A routine traffic stop in Sonoma County turned out to be anything but as police found methamphetamine, about three dozen illegally harvested abalone and a live pond turtle, authorities said. The ...