KSL

Geoduck farming takes off as demand for clams grows in Asia

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Alaska Public Media

With Asian economy back on its feet, Alaskan geoduck clam fishery set to reopen

Southeast Alaska dive fishermen will get back to harvesting clams this week. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Tuesday that the geoduck fishery would resume now that Asian demand is ...
Seattle Times

Export markets cool for Washington’s giant clam, the geoduck, as tariffs mount and Chinese consumers get picky

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 ...
Oregonian

Geoduck farms expand in Pacific Northwest as Asian demand for giant clams grows

Zack Crow uses pumped sea water to loosen the muck while harvesting geoducks for Taylor Shellfish Farms near Harstine Island, Wash. Demand in Asia for the giant clams is prompting shellfish farmers to ...
The Spokesman-Review

Puget Sound geoducks safe to eat, state officials say

SEATTLE – Washington state health officials Tuesday said their arsenic testing has confirmed that geoduck clams harvested from a bay in Puget Sound are safe to eat, following toxicity concerns that ...
komonews

Despite Chinese ban, Wash. geoducks going to Asia

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Despite a Chinese ban on shellfish from the U.S. West Coast, the Washington geoduck industry is shipping off its product to Asia, with the top two destinations being Hong Kong ...
The World

Geoduck farming takes off as demand for clams grows in Asia

HARSTINE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — John King plunges his arm up to his shoulder into the mudflats of Puget Sound, roots around and soon pulls from the muck the world's largest burrowing clam. The mollusk ...