Grappling with live razor clams is not a job for the squeamish. Squirmy and feisty, they shoot out from both ends of their shell like something out of a bad horror movie, and if properly stored in the ...

This article appears in print in the January 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The razor clam is a sweet, meaty mollusk native to the Pacific Northwest and is easy to find along the beaches of ...

It’s very, very difficult to ignore the siren call of a sunny spring day on one of Washington’s coastal beaches. Add a razor clam dig to the mix, and it becomes well-nigh impossible. Sun, sand, and ...

Razor clam recipes, supplied by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Razor clams are delicious and, in my humble opinion, doing anything with them other than a quick fry and serving them ...

Jason Stricker was stunned at what his shovel turned up — a razor clam filling the palm of his hand. “There were three or four of them that big,” he said. “All of six inches. Two clams and a normal ...

The seasonal closure occurs each year along the 18 miles of beach north of Tillamook Head to the Columbia River. The closure allows young clams to establish themselves on the beach during the summer. ...

SEATTLE — Soon, in Southwest Washington, the campaign will ramp up. No, nothing as trivial as a presidential campaign. This is far more important. This is the campaign to become Washington’s official ...

Portland State University researchers and their collaborators at the Quinault Indian Nation and Oregon State University found microplastics in Pacific razor clams on Washington's sparsely populated ...

Researchers found microplastics in Pacific razor clams on Washington's sparsely populated Olympic Coast -- proof, they say, that even in more remote regions, coastal organisms can't escape plastic ...