The world’s largest burrowing clam, the geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck) can weigh 14 pounds and live for more than 150 years—though most of the commercially available ones average two pounds apiece.

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 ...

Taylor Shellfish Company has reached a settlement with nearby homeowners and environmental advocates that will allow a large proposed Pierce County geoduck farm to move forward, subject to several ...

Roughly 650 million pounds of them rest below Puget Sound. They can live to be 150 years old. In China, they’re a coveted delicacy, often enjoyed for their crisp texture and purported aphrodisiac ...

Of all the shellfish that sell on the black market, one clam is above the rest -- the geoduck. Pronounced gooey-duck, these hefty clams bury themselves in sand where they stay for 100 years, doing ...

Craig Welch's new book Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty tells the story of the geoduck (pronounced "gooey duck"), the world's largest burrowing clam. It also puts to ...

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 ...

Any conversation about geoduck clams really should begin by getting the 12-year-old boy humor out of the way at the start. Because there really is no way around the fact that these very large clams -- ...

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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 ...