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Try as one might to write an article about abalone which is completely bereft of any criticism or social commentary, it is impossible to tell the story of the abalone without having to include the history of mankind's involvement with this animal and his propensity for the destruction of nature and the very things that sustain him and the planet he lives on. It is a story that proves that man has learned nothing about his relationship to nature in the last two hundred years, and even less in this so-called "information age", even as species become extinct by the truckload every year and polar ice caps are melting away at rates that increase exponentially every year, and bizarre weather patterns and freak natural disasters are killing tens of thousands regularly.

It is literally a miracle, for example, that the California Sea Otter even exists at all today. How is this significant to abalone? The sea otter is man's main competition for abalone, and before Europeans came to this coastline, abalone and sea otter populations lived and survived together in healthy numbers. Sea otters were decimated nearly to the point of extinction because they made good fur coats, and thus abalone populations rose, that is until man fished them down to essentially an endangered species. Today, scientists and marine biologists struggle to strike a balance between delicately rejuvenating populations of both animals, while abalone fishermen whine that the sea otter is ruining their business and plot new and different ways to do away with the furry creature.