The question of whether the longtime shellfish farm in Burley Lagoon can raise geoducks is inching toward a final answer. Burley Lagoon, a body of saltwater that connects under the Purdy Bay Bridge to ...

Feb. 26—Shellfish farms in the state and the agencies that issue them operating permits are scrambling to complete farm-by-farm paperwork following litigation over whether a former permitting system ...

A group of Johnson Point residents are opposing plans for a new commercial shellfish farm on Henderson Inlet, citing environmental concerns. Taylor Shellfish requested a permit for the proposed ...

SEQUIM — Taylor Shellfish Farms has started the permitting process to establish a 30-acre geoduck farm in Dungeness Bay. The proposed geoduck farm would be the first shellfish farm operated by the ...

The certification covers seven species raised by Taylor, including Olympia oyster (Ostrea lurida), Kumamoto oyster (Crassostrea sikamea), eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica), Mediterranean mussel ...

The Shellfish Growers Climate Coalition is calling on growers and other food industry members to join in fighting climate change. To every one of you who has ever slurped an oyster, dipped a clam in ...

A startling new study reveals that microscopic plastic particles in oceans are carrying dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacteria directly to beaches, coastal communities, and shellfish farms.

Excess seaweed can smother shellfish farms. But University of Washington researchers had hoped to turn that nuisance seaweed into something beneficial. Last summer, swaths of seaweed scraped from one ...

BREMERTON – Commercial shellfish growers won’t have to share their harvest with Puget Sound American Indian tribes under a $33 million treaty rights settlement. The federal and state money will be ...

Sixty shellfish farms in Washington state have applied for federal disaster aid after a double whammy of extreme heat and afternoon low tides killed most of their oysters and clams in June. They’re ...