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 ...

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and members of the Southeast Alaska Regional Dive Fisheries Association talked last week about the possibility of a political solution to China’s ban on Alaska 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 ...

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 ...

Consumers pay more for geoducks, pound for pound, than for Puget Sound salmon or Dungeness crab. Geoduck fishing is heavily regulated, with harvests strictly limited—a perfect recipe for mischief.

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 ...

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 ...