SEATTLE — Soon, in Southwest Washington, the campaign will ramp up. No, nothing as trivial as a presidential campaign. This is far more important. This is the campaign to become Washington’s official ...

This article appears in print in the January 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The razor clam is a sweet, meaty mollusk native to the Pacific Northwest and is easy to find along the beaches of ...

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RAZOR CLAM SURVEYS reveal numbers of the beloved bivalve are at historic highs, according to state Department of Fish and Wildlife Coastal Shellfish Manager Dan Ayres. Ayres said his staff technicians ...

OLYMPIA – The Legislature could declare the razor clam the official Washington state clam, if it can beat back an upstart challenge from the geoduck. The Pacific razor clam is highly important to ...

Thousands of beachgoers are expected to head to Washington state’s outer coast to dig up razor clams for food and fun in March and April. For members of the Quinault Indian Nation, the exceptionally ...

Humboldt County’s razor clams, a delicious addition to many dishes, are now inedible under pain of death, a coma, amnesia, diarrhea or vomiting because of domoic acid levels. The California Department ...

Portland State University researchers and their collaborators at the Quinault Indian Nation and Oregon State University found microplastics in Pacific razor clams on Washington's sparsely populated ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced seven days of coastal razor clam digs starting on Saturday, March 8th. Razor clams have been deemed safe to eat from March 8th to the 14th ...

Razor clam digging will reopen Saturday, Jan. 21, at Copalis Beach only, followed by additional opportunities on Jan. 23 and Jan. 25, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) shellfish ...