A Port Orchard man received a four-month sentence after illegally harvesting 300 pounds of geoduck clams from the Olympia area and dumping them near Port Orchard. Matthew R. Petersen, 27, pleaded ...

In a phone call with the News Tribune, Bridget Mire, communications specialist with the Washington Department of Fish and ...

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 ...

On a typical morning, Lief Cofield and his three crew members pile into a 30-foot aluminum boat to harvest hundreds of pounds of geoduck clams. But for more than two weeks, his boat, the Eagle Scout, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Johnson Point residents are opposing plans for a new commercial shellfish farm on Henderson Inlet, citing environmental ...

It’s a weird-looking animal, the geoduck clam. It looks a little like a regular, everyday steamer clam — but much bigger. “It’s two and a half to three pounds in weight and then the neck on it — it ...

Geoduck can be confusing. When you read the name, your first thought might be "oh, it's a type of duck!" or (in the case of this writer the first time I read it) "is that a type of Pokemon?" In both ...

Like climbing Mount Rainier, fishing for steelhead or performing a microbrew pub crawl across Seattle, digging for the wily geoduck is an exercise in regional identity. Although a few of the big clams ...

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and members of the Southeast Alaska Regional Dive Fisheries Association talked last week about the possibility of a political solution to China’s ban on Alaska and ...

Geoduck clams, grown in Baja California, are increasingly being smuggled illegally to China Mexican geoduck clam populations are suffering as legal harvests are threatened by rampant poaching, which ...

Lorraine Boissoneault - Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene A geoduck shell found scatted among other shells discarded by the Tseshaht peoples 500 to 1000 years ago ...

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 funny name ...