OLYMPIA — For more than a decade, several Thurston County residents have fought to protect a beach from one of the shellfish industry’s cash cows — or more specifically, cash clams. Known for their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Geoducks can reach 14 pounds and live more than 150 years—so long that scientists use rings on the clams' shells to track climate change. Geoducks are broadcast spawners: several times a year, in late ...