TACOMA – Raising geoducks may endanger inland marine life and tidelands, Pierce County planners say, a finding that could likely complicate the county’s permit process for farming the ugly but ...

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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 ...

BRINNON -- We offer the advantageous perspective of one who has faced and survived the fearsome geoduck, that behemoth of Puget Sound's primal muck -- and one who may never attempt it again: You do ...

Washington geoduck harvesters and government officials, including Gov. Jay Inslee, are scrambling to overturn China’s decision to ban some shellfish exports from the Pacific Northwest. The ban has ...

HARSTINE ISLAND, Mason County — John King plunges his arm up to his shoulder into the mud flats of Puget Sound, roots around and soon pulls from the muck the world’s largest burrowing clam. It squirts ...