Craig Parker popped his head above the surf, peeled off his dive mask and clambered aboard the Ichiban. We were anchored 50 yards offshore from a fir-lined peninsula that juts into Puget Sound. Sixty ...

JUST OFF LOPEZ ISLAND, San Juan County — Poor horse clams, arguably the most maligned and underappreciated bivalves in Puget Sound. Once, when I told a neighbor I was going to dig for horse clams, she ...

Filmmaker Justin Bookey digs deep for the geoduck clam, the world's largest and oldest clam, in 3 Feet Under: Digging Deep for the Geoduck Clam. Pronounced "gooey duck", the clam has a phallic neck, ...

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Geoducks are a source of Pacific Northwest pride, exalted in song ("You can hear the diggers say, as they're headed for the bay, oh I gotta dig a duck, gotta dig a duck a day") and romanticized in ...