Table 1.
The nine categories.
Table 2.
The five criteria.
Fig 1.
Global distribution of abalone spp.
(a) all species, (b) species commercially fished, and (c) species threatened with extinction—Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN) or Vulnerable (VU). Basemap (i.e. country layer only) sourced from Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.
Fig 2.
Numbers of abalone species by category code analysed by oceanic region.
Table 3.
Atlantic abalone.
Table 4.
Abalone species of Western Indian Ocean.
Table 5.
Abalone species of Indo-West-Pacific.
Table 6.
Abalone species of Australasia.
Table 7.
Abalone species of Eastern Pacific.
Fig 3.
Abalone species assessed globally analysed by category.
CR Critically Endangered; EN Endangered; VU Vulnerable, NT Near Threatened, LC Least Concern, DD Data Deficient, and showing the impact of commercial exploitation.
Fig 4.
Occurs in Europe & North Africa. Failure of fisheries enforcement. Reprinted under a CC BY license with permission from Buzz Owen, original copyright.
Fig 5.
Occurs in South Africa. Victim of uncontrolled poaching. Reprinted under a CC BY license with permission from Buzz Owen, original copyright.
Fig 6.
Occurs in Japan & Korea. The world’s most consumed abalone. Reprinted under a CC BY license with permission from Buzz Owen, original copyright.
Fig 7.
Occurs in Lord Howe Island, NSW. The only critically endangered unexploited species. Reprinted under a CC BY license with permission from Buzz Owen, original copyright.
Fig 8.
At 313 mm, the world’s largest abalone Reprinted under a CC BY license with permission from Buzz Owen, original copyright.