ELD INLET, THURSTON COUNTY — Some 40 feet down, diver Walter Lorentz groped along the Puget Sound bottom, searching in the weak undersea light for small dimples that would mark the site of a buried ...

ELD INLET, THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — Some 40 feet down, diver Walter Lorentz groped along the Puget Sound bottom, searching in the weak undersea light for small dimples that would mark the site of a ...

Phil Doherty of the Southeast Alaska Regional Dive Fisheries Association says they decided to move forward with fishing after meeting last week with some processors. He says those processors found ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Known for their briny flavor and phallic shape, geoduck clams can cost up to $30 a pound. The geoduck industry is worth $55 million in British Columbia, with about 90% of sales coming from China. 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 ...

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 ...

SUQUAMISH, Wash. (AP) — 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 ...

They’re the ugly duckling of Puget Sound. They’re a popular delicacy in China. And they find themselves burrowed smack dab in the middle of a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.

HARSTINE ISLAND, Mason County — John King plunges his arm up to his shoulder into the mud flats of Puget Sound, roots around and soon pulls from the muck the world’s largest burrowing clam. It squirts ...