Name: Brandon Smith
Title: Abalone Researcher
Employer: CSC
Date/Time: December 5, 2005/ 10:00 A.M.
Place: CSC, Pt. Loma, CA

Quotes: “I’ve been working at CSC for the last year and a half, and one of the projects is the abalone recreation project. It’s come about because local populations have been decimated over the last several years. Abalone used to be pretty prolific in the area and due to over fishing and basically no regulation the abalone declined. Populations have dwindled down to basically nothing. One of the goals of the project is to find a way to increase natural populations.”

Name: Terry Sizemore
Title: Store Manager
Employer: Pt. Loma Seafood
Date/Time: December 14, 2005
Place: Pt. Loma Seafood, Pt. Loma, CA

Quotes: ”The legal size for abalone depending on the species was around 6 to 7 inches for the actual shell and the foot, the actual meat that you eat off of the abalone, you could get about 6 to 8 steaks per foot. You cannot dive for abalone of the coast of San Diego but in Santa Barbara and Monterey County is where the commercial trade still exists, very little but still exists.”

Name: Howard Stacklin (age 73)
Title: retired navy (former recreational diver)
Employer: government
Date/Time: January 3, 2006
Place: Poway, San Diego CA

Quotes: “I used to dive for abalone yupp, come back with 4 ab’s in one dive... Once I went down for ab’s and was attacked by an eel, wanted my ab’s but I wouldn’t give’em up without a fight -  he had it coming”