Any conversation about geoduck clams really should begin by getting the 12-year-old boy humor out of the way at the start. Because there really is no way around the fact that these very large clams – ...

It’s a weird-looking animal, the geoduck clam. It looks a little like a regular, everyday steamer clam — but much bigger. “It’s two and a half to three pounds in weight and then the neck on it — it ...

For over two decades, Suquamish tribal member Joshua George has dived into the emerald waters of the Salish Sea looking for ...

On any given day, about 90 percent of farmed and wild geoduck clams are exported to China. The United States government recently placed tariffs on some Chinese imports into the U.S. The Chinese ...

Why it's awesome: Pacific geoducks are large, saltwater clams that can live longer than 165 years. These phallic-looking sea creatures have very long necks called siphons and are considered a culinary ...

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 ...

Geoducks are a source of Pacific Northwest pride, exalted in song ("You can hear the diggers say, as they're headed for the bay, oh I gotta dig a duck, gotta dig a duck a day") and romanticized in ...

Southeast Alaska dive fishermen will get back to harvesting clams this week. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Tuesday that the geoduck fishery would resume now that Asian demand is ...

A bill prefiled Dec. 17 in our state Legislature designates the razor clam as our official state clam. All Washingtonians respect the sporting razor clam and every bivalve tucked neatly beneath the ...