As we roll into a new month there are many choices on the outdoors scene from shellfish gathering to pursuing salmon, spot shrimp, halibut, trout and lingcod. An extreme low tide between Thursday and ...

It’s time to dig for a geoduck on the beaches of Puget Sound and Hood Canal as extremely low tides are looming on the near horizon allowing shellfish gatherers a rare chance to get these deep-dwelling ...

Geoduck fishing is grueling, even hazardous work. Fishermen drag hundreds of feet of line in a nearly weightless environment, wrestling for leverage and toiling against the tides. A few geoduck divers ...

Southeast Alaska's geoduck clam dive fishery did not open this week because high levels of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning were found. Geoduck Clam siphon showing on the sea floor. Photo by Alaska ...

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 ...

It’s a weird-looking animal, the geoduck clam. It looks a little like a regular, everyday steamer clam — but much bigger. “It’s two and a half to three pounds in weight and then the neck on it — it ...

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 ...

Geoducks. Sea urchins. Sea cucumbers. These “dive seafoods” are some of B.C.’s most prized culinary products, yet few of us have ever even tasted them. Partly that’s because they are also some of our ...

Geoduck fishing is heavily regulated, with harvests strictly limited—a perfect recipe for mischief. Hodgson was accused of stealing a million pounds of clams in the 1980s and eventually pleaded guilty ...