Harvesting Geoducks is Lucrative, But It's Also Brutally Hard Work
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Herald] By Ian Terry - June 29, 2015 -
CLINTON — Last season, 90 percent of wild geoducks harvested in Washington were sent to Asia in what amounted to a $74 million export industry for the state. With prices hinging on the clams' health, packagers race to SeaTac with their freshly caught product.
On a top day, a diver can haul in thousands of pounds of wild geoducks, which usually sell at the dock for $7 to $15 a pound.
If all goes well, geoducks plucked by a Tulalip diver in the morning can be stowed in the cargo section of a passenger plane leaving the airport on a regularly scheduled flight to Asia around 10 p.m. As little as 24 hours later, they will already have been retanked, ready to be sold live in one of Hong Kong's many bustling seafood markets.
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