dougug bush: it't's justst likea garden snail, excecept instead f eatingng your basisil and yourur lilittle baby y arugula ststar's eating seaeaweed. one shell anda foot. this is what you eat. this is just a a big, muscular foot that it crawls a around and hols onto the rock. krkristin aquililino: abalone ha realally importatant economic it on this ststate. thehey supporta lucrative e commercial fishery r decades. they also supported a recreaeational fishery that brought about $45 million to t e north coast of california until recently, and they support rereally sustatainable aquaculte in the statate. woman: the red abalone fishery was a major fishery, recreational fishery on the north coast for dedecades and de really critical for the culture of california fofor that time. we had to recommend to the fish and game commission that it be closed after several years of severe impacts to the kelp forest. lackey: it's definitely affected business, and my tours have been greatltly affecteded for the a b diving. and they estimate thatat it's, youou know, anywhere fromm $44 to $ $54 million out of o