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Red Abalone

This just in, Red Abalone still endangered. This also just in, Poachers and connoisseurs don't seem to give a hoot. All of this not really actually just in at all, because Red Abalone have been endangered for so long now that anyone taking even a cursory glance at the current information available about them will learn this before reading the first three or four lines.

Amazingly enough (or perhaps, not-so-amazingly, considering the prices people are now willing to pay for them ($130.00 +/- per abalone)), poachers keep poaching Red Abalone at an alarming rate, and commercial Red Abalone fisherman continually pressure Fish and Game authorities to open fisheries which have been under protection by federal and state law for much or most of the last century. We don't want to knock people who just want to make a living, but how is it possible that in the last one hundred, or even the last fifty or twenty years, they haven't figured out any other way to make a living besides fishing for Red Abalone? How about getting creative and organizing a community of divers, fishermen, and restauranteurs to start a couple of abalone farms, guaranteeing a future income and alleviating the need to deplete natural populations? If that seems like too much trouble, or even impossible, try bringing a species back from extinction.