Abalone nurseries arrive
Just as he brought the snails out it started to rain. Luckily these are animals that like to get wet 鈥 in fact they need it to survive.
鈥淚f they are out of water for any longer than five minutes you might want to give them a gentle dunk,鈥 said Josh Bouma, abalone program director at Puget Sound Restoration Fund, as he filled two cages with the rare snail.