John Cayou watched the rocky beach, waiting for a squirt of water to shoot up from the sand. A clam, revealing its spot. Cayou dug in his pitchfork, and grabbed clams to put in his bucket. He’s been ...

The sun was shining on Fox Island on Tuesday afternoon, April 1, as a small group gathered by the greenish shoreline of the sand spit, looking for creatures exposed by the low tide. From now until ...

Nestled in their holes in the sandy mud of the North Spit of Coos Bay, the gaper clams thought they were safe. They were wrong. As Coos Bay clam hunter Brandon Williams, wearing a Seattle Seahawks ...

The Razor Clam & Shellfish Festival in Long Beach, Washington, celebrates the peninsula’s decades-long tradition of razor ...

In the Haida people’s creation story, the powerful trickster Raven encounters the first humans inside a giant clamshell on the shores of Rose Spit in present-day British Columbia. Though they are ...