May will be a fateful month for the long-proposed Burley Lagoon Geoduck Farm. Three public meetings will position permit approval/denial recommendations, one of which is among the few remaining ...

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 ...

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As China’s ban on West Coast shellfish continues on, geoduck purveyors are looking to bump up demand for the unique clam at home. Read: Developing A Taste For Geoduck In The Northwest Geoduck is a ...

Taylor Shellfish Company has reached a settlement with nearby homeowners and environmental advocates that will allow a large proposed Pierce County geoduck farm to move forward, subject to several ...

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 ...

Heaven on earth is geoduck sashimi. Just where they come from is a hot dispute in Pierce County, where neighbors contend a permit for a geoduck farm has expired. The problem is about $15 to $20 ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

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 ...