SLOW GOING FOR ABALONE SNAILS' DECLINE ANOTHER SIGN OF SOUND'S FAILING HEALTH HUMAN INTERVENTION IS SPECIES' BEST SHOT.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: June 11, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: ROBERT McCLURE P-I reporter

PORT ANGELES -- To keep this story G-rated (at least for the time being), let's just describe the problem faced by Don Rothaus and his crew this way:

What we've got here, folks, are some awfully lonely abalone.

Yes, Washington does have abalone, a somewhat smaller cousin to the famously overfished California varieties. But populations of our so-called pinto abalone, once gathered copiously by clued-in recreational divers, are in free fall - before most people even knew they lived here.

The state halted abalone fishing 13 ...

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