As a follow-up to The New Zealand Initiative's recently released report, What's the Catch?, Randall Bess is travelling overseas to research some of the different ways recreational fisheries are managed.

In his overseas travels, he first visited the remote northern California coastline. One of the topics of research was the recreational harvest of abalone. The California coastline has seven species of abalone, and the most common and largest is the red abalone (Haliotis rufescens).

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