The abalone has a right-side-up shell. From the outside, its shell is dark brown and vaguely green. But from the inside, its can reflect a variety of colors such as purple, white, and green, revealing a pearlescent appearance. On top of the shell is its soft part. It is yellowish-white and has a flat oval shape.

Abalone, a kind of snail, is one of the valuable "sea treasures", delicious flavor, rich in nutrients, known as the ocean "soft gold". Abalone is a valuable marine edible shellfish, known as "table gold, the crown of the sea treasures", its meat is tender, nutritious.

Abalone, the name of the fish, in fact, is not fish, species of primitive marine shellfish, monocoque mollusks. Because of its shape is similar to the human ear, so also called it "sea ear". Abalone usually grows in the lower water temperature of the seabed, footprint throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, recognized as the best place of origin for the northern part of Japan and Mexico, northeastern China is also a traditional producing areas.

Types of species

(1) net abalone

net abalone for the dark brown, oval in shape, thin sides, pillow bottom beads, the bottom edge of the broad and flat, the tail is more pointed, the meat is large and plump, with a knife to cut the cross-section of the net-like pattern, so it is called net abalone.

(2) Jipin abalone

Jipin abalone. Also known as Jibin abalone. China's Qingdao, Hainan and Taiwan are also produced, but recognized as the best produced in Iwate County, Japan. Yoshihama abalone outside high inside low, shaped like Yuanbao, there is a clear line mark in the center, and hard, pillow high, body shape smaller than the net abalone.

(3) Wo Ma abalone

Wo Ma abalone, also known as Wo Ma abalone, the body of the boat-shaped, small, the body side of the needle holes, the color is golden, the meat is smooth and tender. Taste fat. Due to the Wo Ma abalone activities in the seabed rock crevices, fishing with an iron needle to catch the pinhole left behind will become the best mark to identify it.