WHIDBEY ISLAND — Caked with sand from head to toe, Keith Akada of Seattle was down on all fours feeling for the world’s largest bivalve buried in 3 feet of sand. “I can feel its shell,” shouted Akada ...

Geoduck (pronounced “gooey-duck”) is a clam with an oversized siphon (some people call it the neck) that bears an unfortunate resemblance to a certain part of the male anatomy; the siphon and body are ...

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 ...

The necks of geoduck clams can grow up to two and a half feet long. Pick one up and it’s hard not to conjure up a tender part of the human anatomy. As Mark Kurlansky writes, the “long phallic neck ...