As China’s ban on West Coast shellfish continues on, geoduck purveyors are looking to bump up demand for the unique clam at home. Read: Developing A Taste For Geoduck In The Northwest Geoduck is a ...

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 ...

Paralvinella hessleri: The yellow worm that lives in acid and fights poison with poison 'Very novel and very puzzling': Unknown species of squid spotted burying itself upside down, pretending to be a ...

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 ...

On any given day, about 90 percent of farmed and wild geoduck clams are exported to China. The United States government recently placed tariffs on some Chinese imports into the U.S. The Chinese ...

It’s a weird-looking animal, the geoduck clam. It looks a little like a regular, everyday steamer clam — but much bigger. “It’s two and a half to three pounds in weight and then the neck on it — it ...

We called up Marco Pinchot, of Taylor Shellfish Farms in Puget Sound. Taylor is the largest shellfish farm in the country, and they’re not just doing geoduck. “If you’ve ever had Manila clams in New ...

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 ...

A geoduck shell found scatted among other shells discarded by the Tseshaht peoples 500 to 1000 years ago suggests that the community had been harvesting and eating geoduck for centuries. Lorraine ...

So first, a primer: geoduck, pronounced, in the face of all logic, “gooey duck,” is a giant clam native to the coastal areas of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. In the wild, it can live for ...

Geoduck farming’s increasing use of plastic gear cost it a top-spot rating from Seafood Watch, a consumer guide popular with environmentally minded eaters. Washington’s farmed geoduck was downgraded ...

Geoduck farms are spreading around the coastal Northwest. The geoduck, the largest clam in North America (and pronounced GOO-ee-duck), is a bivalve with a three-foot neck. They can live to be more ...