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22/10/2006: "ABALONE COLONY ........ underwater picture"

New South Wales abalone on the south coast, showing how they were once found, packing into every available crevice, and grazing in the open.

There are at least eight of the now highly valueable shellfish seen here in this picture from the mid 1960's.