Lawsuit Launched to Protect Disappearing Pinto Abalone From Ocean Acidification, Climate Change and Poaching

Once Common From Alaska to Mexico, Abalone Has Declined 99 Percent in Some Places

ANCHORAGE, Alaska–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2014.  Conservation groups notified the National Marine Fisheries Service today of their intent to sue the agency for delaying Endangered Species Act protection for the pinto abalone, an approximately six-inch snail with an iridescent inner shell that was once common in rocky, intertidal coasts from Alaska to Baja California.

Photo courtesy Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

The…