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 ...

It’s time to dig for a geoduck on the beaches of Puget Sound and Hood Canal as extremely low tides are looming on the near horizon allowing shellfish gatherers a rare chance to get these deep-dwelling ...

Another round of low tides will occur later this month, and will offer shellfish gatherers another chance to dig up one of the largest deep-dwelling shellfish in Puget Sound A geoduck is a highly ...

The geoduck, extraterrestrial clam god of Puget Sound, has survived for thousands of years in local waters, with individual specimens often living 140-160 years or more. The bivalve recently received ...

The mighty geoduck clam is a local food source, native to my island home. But digging for it demands a license, fortitude, and fast shoveling. Knowing that Bainbridge Island inhabitants once fed ...

Geoducks are a source of Pacific Northwest pride, exalted in song ("You can hear the diggers say, as they're headed for the bay, oh I gotta dig a duck, gotta dig a duck a day") and romanticized in ...

The geoduck, extraterrestrial clam god of Puget Sound, has survived for thousands of years in local waters, with individual specimens often living 140-160 years or more. The bivalve recently received ...