Buried in the muck beneath Puget Sound lives the Pacific Northwest's most profitable marine creature, a mollusk so valuable that gangsters have traded it for narcotics: the geoduck (pronounced "gooey ...

May will be a fateful month for the long-proposed Burley Lagoon Geoduck Farm. Three public meetings will position permit approval/denial recommendations, one of which is among the few remaining ...

It’s been a transportation system and a source of food, and it’s a body of water that underpins thousands of years of history and culture in this area. And now, Puget Sound is the focus of an ...

SUQUAMISH, Wash. — For over two decades, Suquamish tribal member Joshua George has dived into the emerald waters of the Salish Sea looking for an unusually phallic clam that’s coveted thousands of ...

HARSTINE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — John King plunges his arm up to his shoulder into the mudflats of Puget Sound, roots around and soon pulls from the muck the world’s largest burrowing clam. The mollusk ...

PURDY, Wash. -- Geoducks are one of the state's most iconic shellfish and worldwide demand is growing. However, people who live around Burley Lagoon, the perfect place for geoducks to thrive, aren't ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Johnson Point residents are opposing plans for a new commercial shellfish farm on Henderson Inlet, citing environmental ...

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. -- The water s red in the Puget Sound near DuPont, and that could be a good thing for geoduck harvesters. The state Department of Health is injecting red dye into the treated ...

For the first time, commercial geoduck harvesting will be allowed in Puget Sound between Dash Point and Saltwater state parks. The state Department of Health made the decision today after a study of ...

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