Phil Doherty of the Southeast Alaska Regional Dive Fisheries Association says they decided to move forward with fishing after meeting last week with some processors. He says those processors found ...
Alaska has some of the most successful commercial fisheries on the planet. One of the reasons that Alaska has been so successful with resource management is its requirement and reliance on some of the ...
SEATTLE — A commercial geoduck diver from Bremerton was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon after a diving accident in the water off Green Point that morning. Sam ...
It’s a weird-looking animal, the geoduck clam. It looks a little like a regular, everyday steamer clam — but much bigger. “It’s two and a half to three pounds in weight and then the neck on it — it ...
On a typical morning, Lief Cofield and his three crew members pile into a 30-foot aluminum boat to harvest hundreds of pounds of geoduck clams. But for more than two weeks, his boat, the Eagle Scout, ...
KETCHIKAN, Alaska - Homely as they may seem, geoduck clams are fetching a pretty penny for commercial harvest divers in Southeast Alaska this season. "Prices have been at the highest level I think our ...
The Kitsap County coroner says cocaine intoxication was a factor in the death of a state Department of Natural Resources diver who drowned in July off Bainbridge Island. David D. Scheinost (SHYN'-ohst ...
KINGSTON – A Tulalip geoduck diver died Saturday morning after he became entangled in his equipment and lost his mask below water near Jefferson Point. Crews were dispatched at about 10 a.m. Saturday ...
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) - A Port Angeles diver died Wednesday after his air umbilical cord apparently became entangled while he was geoduck harvesting, authorities said. The Clallam County Sheriff’s ...
SEATTLE — A commercial geoduck diver from Bremerton was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon after a diving accident in the water off Green Point that morning. Sam ...