For the first time, commercial geoduck harvesting will be allowed in Puget Sound between Dash Point and Saltwater state parks. The state Department of Health made the decision today after a study of ...

In a phone call with the News Tribune, Bridget Mire, communications specialist with the Washington Department of Fish and ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The new season for recreational shellfish harvesting is set to officially begin in less than two weeks. The 2025-2026 harvest season for clams and oysters will begin a ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Discovery Bay beaches have been closed for recreational shellfish harvesting due to high paralytic shellfish poison levels in shellfish samples sent to the state Department of Health.

All recreational shellfish harvesting has been temporarily suspended along Kitsap County’s eastern shoreline after tests taken on Monday found high concentrations of a potentially deadly marine ...

Harvesting shellfish has been put on hold for several beaches in Washington. According to Public Health Seattle & King County, paralytic shellfish poison has been detected from Alki Beach to Dash ...

To ensure harvesters are following these new rules, the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife will routinely ...

State officials have closed beaches in West Seattle and Vashon Island to recreational shellfish harvesting, after detecting unsafe levels of a potentially deadly toxin in the marine animals, Public ...

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 ...