According to Maritime Museum historian, Tim Thomas, the line tracing the rise and fall of Monterey’s abalone industry began in the 19th century. He told us that in the early 1850s a group of Chinese fishermen came down from San Francisco and discovered a huge wealth of abalone along the coastline. It was even dubbed “the abalone rush”.
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