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 ...

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 ...

He was armed only with a water spray gun, called a stinger, with which he loosened clams from their beds. In 90 minutes, he had gathered about 150 geoducks. From a skiff tied alongside the 36-foot ...

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 ...

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 ...

Water laps against the Ichiban’s stern as Joe Seymour and Darren Ford, dive suits peeled to their waists, stack crazy-shaped clams into crates. It’s hard to watch this careful arranging of fresh ...

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From microscopic plankton to intimidating, deep sea lantern fish, the creatures that live in the ocean are as varied and unfamiliar as if they lived on another planet. Among these strange looking ...

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 ...

Pronounced "gooey-duck," these hefty clams bury themselves in sand where they stay for 100 years, doing little more than stretching their meter-long, fleshy siphons up into the water column to feed on ...