What can be said about the Red Abalone? Can we not say that it is one of the most heroic sea creatures we ever may encounter? It bears the honor of being among a handful of creatures on earth that have been hunted and environmentally polluted or destroyed or both by man and then managed to make a steady but consistent comeback in recent years. If only the DoDo and the Carrier Pigeon had been as fortunate as the Red Abalone.
Considering how slowly they move (if they ever do), and the relative ease by which they can be caught, the survival of the Red Abalone despite man's best efforts to completely exhaust it, (along with everything else) as a natural resource, is quite remarkable. To truly destroy the Red Abalone in the systematic manner by which the DoDo was done in, man would literally have to drain much of the Pacific Ocean by about fifteen to twenty feet, probably less, just as he completely flattened the forest that was the main habitat of the ill-fated DoDo. Of course, it is now common knowledge that ocean levels will in fact be rising significantly in the coming decades thanks to us (no, that's not good, unless you're Lex Luthor), so the Red Abalone will actually be given little bit of an advantage for a while, their survival assisted by our creation of disastrous damage to another part of the natural world.