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 ...

Samples used in various stages of the clam research in Bryan Black's lab at the University of Arizona. Clockwise from upper right, a complete Pacific geoduck clam shell; a shell's hinge plate ...

The big myth is that the adult geoduck digs down to escape when pursued. The retraction of the long neck fools one into thinking the clam is escaping downward.

George is a geoduck diver. Pronounced “gooey-duck,” the world’s largest burrowing clam has been harvested in tidelands by George’s Indigenous ancestors in the Pacific Northwest since ...

Geoduck farming takes off as demand grows for the odd-looking clam By Phuong Le The Associated Press Posted May 14, 2015 3:47 pm Updated May 14, 2015 3:51 pm ...

SEATTLE — Washington state health officials Tuesday said their arsenic testing has confirmed that geoduck clams harvested from a bay in Puget Sound are safe to eat, following toxicity concerns ...

For the uninitiated, a geoduck -- it's pronounced GOOEY-duck -- is a large clam peculiar to backwater marine areas of the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska. Puget Sound is the apex of the ...

A Canadian seafood company helped buy geoduck kingpin Doug Tobin’s fishing boat and finance his $1.5 million Puget Sound clam-poaching ring — all in exchange for exclusive rights to resell the ...

PORT ANGELES — The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe expects to meet its geoduck quota despite an indefinite Chinese ban on shellfish imports from Northern California to Alaska that caused the tribe to lose ...

Commercial geoduck farming followed in the mid-1990s, really taking off in the last decade with modernized growing techniques.

From where to find geoduck to the many exquisite dishes you can make with this seafood, here's everything you need to know about this uniquely shaped clam.

Geoduck was long considered a substandard clam in the Northwest — used mostly as filler for cheap chowder. In recent years, the clam has evolved into a luxury item in Asia. Most of the sound’s ...