Washington state's giant clam known as the geoduck became a Chinese delicacy, creating a niche yet lucrative export. But President Donald Trump's escalating trade war with China is crippling the ...

For over two decades, Suquamish tribal member Joshua George has dived into the emerald waters of the Salish Sea looking for an unusually phallic clam that’s coveted thousands of miles away. George is ...

The necks of geoduck clams can grow up to two and a half feet long. Pick one up and it’s hard not to conjure up a tender part of the human anatomy. As Mark Kurlansky writes, the “long phallic neck ...

ELD INLET, THURSTON COUNTY — Some 40 feet down, diver Walter Lorentz Jr. groped along the bottom of Puget Sound, searching in the weak undersea light for small dimples that mark the site of a buried ...

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 ...