For the first time, commercial geoduck harvesting will be allowed in Puget Sound between Dash Point and Saltwater state parks. The state Department of Health made the decision today after a study of ...

The escalating trade war between the US and China has severely impacted the geoduck industry in Washington state. Pronounced “gooey-duck,” the world’s largest burrowing clam has been harvested in ...

For over two decades, Suquamish tribal member Joshua George has dived into the emerald waters of the Salish Sea looking for an unusually phallic clam that’s coveted thousands of miles away. George is ...

The question of whether the longtime shellfish farm in Burley Lagoon can raise geoducks is inching toward a final answer. Burley Lagoon, a body of saltwater that connects under the Purdy Bay Bridge to ...

HARSTINE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — John King plunges his arm up to his shoulder into the mudflats of Puget Sound, roots around and soon pulls from the muck the world’s largest burrowing clam. The mollusk ...

Most of the harvest goes to China, where cooks in Shanghai and Beijing simmer the clams in hot pots. A single geoduck can fetch $60 in a Hong Kong fish market. The lowly bivalve, it seems, has come ...

The sea is an immense and enigmatic kingdom, its inhabitants as weird as they are wondrous. Among them, one Pacific Northwest sea dweller piques interest like few others: the geoduck. With its ...

SUQUAMISH, Wash. (AP) -- For more than two decades, Suquamish tribal member Joshua George has dived into the emerald waters of the Salish Sea looking for an unusually phallic clam that's coveted ...