Why it's awesome: Pacific geoducks are large, saltwater clams that can live longer than 165 years. These phallic-looking sea creatures have very long necks called siphons and are considered a culinary ...

Oyster Bill Whitbeck is the Seattle area restaurant sales manager for Taylor Shellfish Farms - the largest producer of farmed shellfish in the United States. He believes oyster farmers were the first ...

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 Taylor family's passion for shellfish seems to have been born 136 years ago in Washington's cold tides. Today it runs the largest shellfish farming company in the U.S.

Geoducks are a source of Pacific Northwest pride, exalted in song ("You can hear the diggers say, as they're headed for the bay, oh I gotta dig a duck, gotta dig a duck a day") and romanticized in ...