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 — ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE GEODUCK on my counter was definitely alive. When it flexed its nine-inch siphon, my wife retreated to the living room. Even my 3-year-old, Iris, who is not afraid of anything, didn’t want to get ...

Roughly 650 million pounds of them rest below Puget Sound. They can live to be 150 years old. In China, they’re a coveted delicacy, often enjoyed for their crisp texture and purported aphrodisiac ...

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 ...