Resources

MAW Documentation

Volunteer Sign Up PDF

Incident Reporting PDF

California Department of Fish and Game

Sea Grant: Abalone Info PDF

California's Living Marine Resources: A Status Report PDF

Internet Resources

View from below: Diving at Mendocino Headlands (April 2008):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlVlQl_KZyg&feature=related

Red Abalone Status Report (podcast) by Ian Taniguchi, DFG biologist:
http://www.thankyouocean.org/red-abalone

Harvesting rules and regulations:
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/education/video/AbaloneRegulations.html

General Resource Info
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/abalone.asp

How to clean an abalone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2z1ruJEkOI

History and nutritional aspects
http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/pubs/abalone.htm

New Zealand Paua (Abalone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx877AR1Jzg&feature=related

Dangerous Diving for Abalone on Northcoast, Poaching, Preparing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN2icZ_2F1E&feature=fvw

A not-so-pretty way to prepare abalone

BBQing alive in the shell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlVlQl_KZyg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcSpCbpl49U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzzZjnkP9Fs&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gd0tC7kwYY&feature=related

Commercial abalone consulting firm
http://www.fishtech.com/index.html

Fascinating article on the strength of abalone shell
http://www.livescience.com/technology/050118_abalone_armor.html