BRINNON -- We offer the advantageous perspective of one who has faced and survived the fearsome geoduck, that behemoth of Puget Sound's primal muck -- and one who may never attempt it again: You do ...

Craig Parker popped his head above the surf, peeled off his dive mask and clambered aboard the Ichiban. We were anchored 50 yards offshore from a fir-lined peninsula that juts into Puget Sound. Sixty ...

WHIDBEY ISLAND — Caked with sand from head to toe, Keith Akada of Seattle was down on all fours feeling for the world’s largest bivalve buried in 3 feet of sand. “I can feel its shell,” shouted Akada ...

CLINTON — The sound of labored breathing crackles over the radio aboard the fishing boat Rawdeal on an overcast morning in late May. Anchored about 100 yards off the eastern coastline of Whidbey ...

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 ...

Granada has great food, but it can get expensive. Check out this list of places to grab a bite without breaking your bank. [Travel Destination Search] ...

Geoducks. Sea urchins. Sea cucumbers. These “dive seafoods” are some of B.C.’s most prized culinary products, yet few of us have ever even tasted them. Partly that’s because they are also some of our ...

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 ...

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 ...