Geoducks

"There's no limit to the demand for geoducks from the Asian buyers," says Casey Bakker, an American who has sold them for 30 years. ❋ Unknown (2011)

T Features July 07, 2011, 5:15 PM EDT Thanks to demand in Asia and legal victories in the U.S., American Indian tribes in the Pacific Northwest dominate a rich trade in giant clams called geoducks pronounced Data: Washington Fish and Wildlife Dept. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Duckers dive exclusively for the giant, burrowing clams known as geoducks. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Up high on the beach were Manila clams -- with   their   built-in Asian-restaurant market, still the cash cow of the South Sound -- while a series of what looked like kiddie pools nearer the waterline held geoducks, giant clams whose space-alienish, three-foot-long siphons sent up eccentric splats of seawater. ❋ Richard Nalley (2010)

By the mid-20th century, geoducks had been overharvested, and even an industrious beachcomber had trouble finding one. ❋ Geoffrey Norman (2010)

Then, in the 1970s, divers discovered geoducks in the deeper waters of the Puget Sound, and something of a clam rush followed. ❋ Geoffrey Norman (2010)

An illegal trade in geoducks, complete with smugglers and criminal cartels, was inevitable. ❋ Geoffrey Norman (2010)

Welch gives his reader a sense of both the region's amazing natural bounty and of the quirky people who seek geoducks out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Chinese and the Japanese are exceedingly fond of geoducks and pay handsomely for them. ❋ Geoffrey Norman (2010)

It seems that geoducks have been found, to the astonishment of biologists, in Mexican waters. ❋ Geoffrey Norman (2010)