It’s time to dig for a geoduck on the beaches of Puget Sound and Hood Canal as extremely low tides are looming on the near horizon allowing shellfish gatherers a rare chance to get these deep-dwelling ...

Seeking a geoduck is downright dirty business. You’ll need to just about bury yourself headfirst into mucky sand and seawater to get to the deep dwellers of Puget Sound. Last weekend, we took our ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Cliff Cultee and other Lummi geoduck divers hope to get a chance to harvest the big, meaty clams again this spring. Geoducks, like all bivalves, are subject to temporary ...

Like climbing Mount Rainier, fishing for steelhead or performing a microbrew pub crawl across Seattle, digging for the wily geoduck is an exercise in regional identity. Although a few of the big clams ...

It's low tide on Squaxin Island. The cold, drizzly day only makes the muddy beach seem even more unfriendly, ready to swallow a foot at any moment, especially one that belongs to a preoccupied woman ...

A Washington woman has gone viral after being filmed almost completely submerged underwater while digging for a seafood delicacy. Amber Fauci, an Arizona native, dove head first into the sand during ...

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 ...

The name geoduck comes from the Nisqually Indian gweduc, which means "dig deep." The clam uses a tiny foot to burrow into the seafloor as it grows. Its shell can end up several feet down, with only ...