It is abalone brine. The stock. Don’t throw it away! It is valuable for cooking. I made a mistake once of dumping the liquid away thinking it to be mere salt water but it wasn’t. That’s the stock of boiled abalones and there’s a lot of flavour in it. read more
The abalone is a gastropod found in most of the oceans in the world and prized as a culinary treat among the Japanese and residents of the West Coast of the United States, among others. read more
Abalone in shallow water may be crushed by storm tossed rocks. Large abalone are not threatened by the predators of their earlier life, but larger, and often more efficient predators now become important. Fishes, such as the cabezon, can dislodge some abalone and swallow them whole. read more