Any conversation about geoduck clams really should begin by getting the 12-year-old boy humor out of the way at the start. Because there really is no way around the fact that these very large clams — ...

Any conversation about geoduck clams really should begin by getting the 12-year-old boy humor out of the way at the start. Because there really is no way around the fact that these very large clams -- ...

ELD INLET, THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE GEODUCK on my counter was definitely alive. When it flexed its nine-inch siphon, my wife retreated to the living room. Even my 3-year-old, Iris, who is not afraid of anything, didn’t want to get ...

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 ...