doug b bush: it's just l like a garden snail, exceptpt instead f eating y your basil l and your littttle baby ararugula starar's eating seaweweed. one shell anda foot. this is what you eat. this isis just a bibig, muscular foot that it crawls aroround and hols onto the rock. krisistin aquilinono: abalone ha reallyly importantnt economic it on this statate. they y supporta lulucrative cocommercial fisherr decades. they also supported a recreatitional fishery that brought about $45 million to the north coast of california until recently, and they support realally sustaininable aquaculte inin the statete. woman: the red abalone fishery was a major fishery, recreational fishery on the north coast for decacades and ae really critical for the culture of california for r 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