Daniel McRae, Derrick’s brother, unloading a bag of harvested geoduck clams on their boat near Illahee State Park in Bremerton, Washington. — AP FOR over two decades, Suquamish tribal member Joshua ...

On a typical morning, Lief Cofield and his three crew members pile into a 30-foot aluminum boat to harvest hundreds of pounds of geoduck clams. But for more than two weeks, his boat, the Eagle Scout, ...

CLINTON — The sound of labored breathing crackles over the radio aboard the fishing boat Rawdeal on an overcast morning in late May. Anchored about 100 yards off the eastern coastline of Whidbey ...

The state has approved geoduck harvesting from boats for the first time in a stretch of water between Dash Point and Saltwater state parks in King County. The Puyallup Tribe asked the state to test ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Authorities have identified the 36-year-old commercial geoduck diver who died in Puget Sound on Tuesday. The Olympian reportsDaniel Hall of Olympia died after he was pulled ...

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 ...

The tribal police are tied up alongside the Ichiban, a broad, aluminum dive boat that bucks against its anchor line 300 yards offshore. Only one of the Ichiban’s two dive lines is running at the ...

Every day, thousands of pounds of geoducks extracted from the floor of Puget Sound get loaded onto airplanes and shipped across the world, where the delicacy commands a high price. The prized clam ...