Abalone is one of the rare "sea treasures" and a rare marine edible shellfish, which is known as "table gold, the crown of sea treasures". The edible part of fresh products is protein 24% and fat 0.44%; Dried food contains 40% protein, 33.7% glycogen, 0.9% fat, vitamins and trace elements, which is a high-protein and low-fat food that is very beneficial to human body. Abalone is very delicious because it is rich in glutamic acid.
Abalone's body is covered with a thick calcareous shell, and its shell is a right-handed spiral shell. The single-walled shell of abalone is hard and right-handed, and its surface is dark green and brown. The purple, green and white colors on the inside of the shell complement each other, just like gems.
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Among the oceans, the Pacific coast and some island reefs are the most abundant, followed by the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean.
On the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, abalone is distributed from Alaska in the north to the west coast of Canada, the United States and Mexico in the south. Abalone is distributed in the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, starting from kamchatka peninsula in the north, along Japan, Korean Peninsula, China, Philippines, Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, to Australia and New Zealand, and then to the sub-Antarctic March Island, which is more than 0/000 kilometers south of New Zealand. However, abalone has not been found in Hawaii.
Abalone is also distributed around the Indian Ocean, along the Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Tanzania and Madagascar along the east coast of Africa in the south, and all the way to the Cape of Good Hope, with the largest yield in southern Africa.
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