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The National Marine Fisheries Services has decided not to grant federal protection to the pinto abalone, a prized six-inch sea snail whose population has severely declined in Northern California. 
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Scoop.it!
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PIRatE Lab's insight:
We are thinking of playing around with some of these here in the Channel Islands and in the Cooks.
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I have not yet fully read the report yet, but it can be found here:
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/12/29/2014-30345/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-notice-of-12-month-finding-on-petitions-to-list-the
From my general knowledge of abs, I am a bit surprised by this finding. While never as numerous as greens, reds, blacks, etc., pintos have been comparatively scare for quite sometime. A cog in the serial depletion wheel that was commercial abalone harvesting on the western coast of North America from the late 1800s to the 1980s, Pintos were hammered into much lower abundances than their pre-disturbance conditions. As we have seen with many species of broadcast spawners, these downward trajectories in density usually translate into downward spirals in encounter rate. Not a good thing for critters like these.