TACOMA – Raising geoducks may endanger inland marine life and tidelands, Pierce County planners say, a finding that could likely complicate the county’s permit process for farming the ugly but ...

TACOMA — Raising geoducks may endanger inland marine life and tidelands, Pierce County planners say, a finding that could likely complicate the county’s permit process for farming the ugly but ...

OLYMPIA — For more than a decade, several Thurston County residents have fought to protect a beach from one of the shellfish industry’s cash cows — or more specifically, cash clams. Known for their ...

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Of all the shellfish that sell on the black market, one clam is above the rest -- the geoduck. Pronounced gooey-duck, these hefty clams bury themselves in sand where they stay for 100 years, doing ...

Geoducks can reach 14 pounds and live more than 150 years—so long that scientists use rings on the clams' shells to track climate change. Geoducks are broadcast spawners: several times a year, in late ...

BRINNON -- We offer the advantageous perspective of one who has faced and survived the fearsome geoduck, that behemoth of Puget Sound's primal muck -- and one who may never attempt it again: You do ...

VANCOUVER — Diversification has become a mantra for Canadian exporters in the new age of tariffs, but for harvesters of British Columbia’s geoduck clams, that’s a high hurdle, said BC Seafood Alliance ...

Washington geoduck harvesters and government officials, including Gov. Jay Inslee, are scrambling to overturn China’s decision to ban some shellfish exports from the Pacific Northwest. The ban has ...

The tribal police are tied up alongside the Ichiban, a broad, aluminum dive boat that bucks against its anchor line 300 yards offshore. Only one of the Ichiban’s two dive lines is running at the ...