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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Friday the tide will draw out of Puget Sound lower than any other day of the year, revealing a prime opportunity to shuck oysters and dig clams, including the best chance of the year for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

FEW CLAMS ARE coveted quite like the geoduck. They’re large, they’re elusive and — more so than any other North Olympic Peninsula shellfish — they’re a visual freak show. Oddly enough, they may also ...

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 ...