Pinto Abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana): Bibliography

The National Marine Fisheries Service Alaska Region is interested in establishing a Habitat Focus Area in southern Alaska. One aspect of this Habitat Focus Area is an emphasis on the conservation of Alaska’s only native abalone species, Haliotis kamtschatkana, also known as pinto or northern abalone. H. kamtschatkana is not currently an ESA-listed species, though it is on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and the Canadian government lists it as a “Species at Risk”. The NOAA Central Library has collaborated with NMFS to produce this bibliography, which covers traditional and grey scientific literature on H. kamtschatkana from the beginning of the twentieth century. The earliest reference is from 1921, though the majority of the literature was published between 1970 and the present.