First discovered in the Gulf of California in the 1990s, the clam’s harvesting regulation has only been in place since 2007. Its price in Mexico can reach $40 a kilogram and a single geoduck clam can ...

Last year, the U.S. exported $74 million, or about 11 million pounds, worth of live wild and farmed geoduck, mostly to China and Hong Kong. That’s double the volume and value exported in 2008.

In this March 23, 2015 photo, workers on a Taylor Shellfish Farms floating platform in the Totten Inlet near Shelton, Wash., prepare to gather geoduck clams grown in submerged metal racks until ...

Geoduck can be confusing. When you read the name, your first thought might be "oh, it's a type of duck!" or (in the case of this writer the first time I read it) "is that a type of Pokemon?" In both ...

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.

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 ...

State and tribal officials have closed a 135-acre geoduck-harvesting area outside Federal Way until they can fully investigate the toxicity levels that caused China to ban shellfish imported from ...

In fact, a survey conducted by our public radio station KUOW (94.9 FM), showed that over 70 percent of respondents preferred the geoduck as our state’s official clam.

Why it's awesome: Pacific geoducks are large, saltwater clams that can live longer than 165 years. These phallic-looking sea creatures have very long necks called siphons and are considered a ...

The geoduck is one of the oldest and most impressive clams. It can weigh up to 10 pounds and live as long as 140 years. While the geoduck won’t win any beauty contests, it is by far one of the ...

About 36 geoduck clams were harvested from Poverty Bay and combined into 12 samples that were tested in a state lab, as well as a private lab. The samples tested lower than China’s acceptable standard ...

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 ...