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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The geoduck—a bizarre yet edible mollusk that populates the waters of the Pacific Northwest—looks more like a gag gift you’d purchase at Spencer’s than the focus of an $80 million industry. But ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taylor Shellfish Company has reached a settlement with nearby homeowners and environmental advocates that will allow a large ...

Geoduck can be blanched, stir-fried or cooked up in chowder. Courtesy of Flickr user Janine C. What is a geoduck? Don't feel bad if you've never heard of the large clam before. Outside of the Pacific ...

Geoduck (pronounced “gooey-duck”) is a clam with an oversized siphon (some people call it the neck) that bears an unfortunate resemblance to a certain part of the male anatomy; the siphon and body are ...

It’s not a duck, but it sure is gooey. The poorly-spelled geoduck, which is pronounced “gooey duck,” is a large, burrowing clam that is native to the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest. With a ...

In the Puget Sound, along the northwestern coast of Washington state, a clam known as the geoduck has been not-so-quietly residing for centuries. It’s native to the coastal areas of the Pacific ...

Washington geoduck harvesters and government officials, including Gov. Jay Inslee, are scrambling to overturn China’s decision to ban some shellfish exports from the Pacific Northwest. The ban has ...