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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Cliff Cultee and other Lummi geoduck divers hope to get a chance to harvest the big, meaty clams again this spring. Geoducks, like all bivalves, are subject to temporary ...

The equipment used to farm geoducks, including PVC pipes and nets, might have a greater impact on the Puget Sound food web than the addition of the clams themselves. That's one of the findings of the ...

Geoducks (pronounced "gooey ducks") are large clams found along the West Coast of North America, from Alaska to Baja California. Geoducks can weigh up to 7 pounds and look a bit unusual — their ...

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 ...

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.