We can never have too many cute pics of ducks..Geo- ducks that is

[SoCalDem]

Geoduck
Common name: Geoduck

Scientific name: Panopea abrupta

Size: They grow to about 2 pounds in 4 or 5 years and reach full size in about 15 years (shell size about 6 inches, weight 10 to 14 pounds).

Distinctive features: the shell covers only a small portion of the geoduck's portly body or "siphon"

Diet: algae

Life expectancy: up to 150 years!

Distribution: coastal waters from California to Alaska and are most prolific in Puget Sound and British Columbia

Where it lives: Young clams burrow into sediments about a foot each year and generally settle in at about 3 feet. They live in low intertidal and subtidal zones at depths of 10 to 80 feet typically, but reaching depths up to 360 feet. Densities can surpass 20 clams per square meter in ideal habitats.

Many thanks to Dr. Megan Dethier's Spring 2002 Invertebrates Class at the UW's Friday Harbor Labs for researching information on many of the invertebrates featured on this site.

Photo courtesy of Dan Cheney.

Click pic to see video on how to catch them

[Dookus]

1. and to think people EAT those things

[AntiCoup2K4]

5. Hey, you only need to catch one.....

....and that's enough for a pot of clam chowder!

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. Are they any good fried?

I just love fried clams.

[jmowreader]

6. I find them a bit tough when fried...

but maybe I was just getting them cooked wrong. Chowder is what they're best for.

Now give me a big dish of fried littlenecks. That's good eating.

[banana republican]

7. I had some on my honeymoon

by Dungeness Spit on the North Coast of Washington. They have a very *strong* flavor and once acquired it is great....

However I have a question here:

if it crawl like a Goeduck;
(they are slow and very lethargic don't move a great deal)
and spits like a Goeduck;
(they tend to spit at you if you step on their air hole)
and slimes like a Goeduck;
(one of the slimiest except for banana slugs
((about a quarter the size of a banana and really gross)))
wouldn't you call it a >>>>

[pfitz59]

12. Razor Clams are what you fry!

[AntiCoup2K4]

3. You must be a Greener?

;)

[SoCalDem]

4. Nope.. I just saw that pic on google

and to say that it's odd looking would be an understatement :eyes:

[Kamika]

8. OMG

!!! I almost threw up

DAMN that's gross

[ET Awful]

9. Here's a REAL duck to help lessen the nausea :)

Taken by yours truly at the Public Gardens in Boston last fall:

[BiggJawn]

10. You can hear the diggers say, as they're headin' for th' Bay...

You can hear the diggers say as they’re headin' for th' bay,
Well I’ve gotta dig a duck, gotta dig a duck a day.
For I get a buck a duck, if I get a duck a day
So I’ve gotta dig a duck, gotta dig a duck a day

Chorus: Dig a duck, dig a duck, dig a geoduck, dig a duck, dig a geoduck, dig a duck a day, hey!


Dig a duck, dig a duck, dig a geoduck, dig a duck, dig a geoduck, dig a duck a day, hey!

Well, it takes a lot of luck and a certain kind of pluck,


Just too get around the muck, just to dig a geoduck.
For he hasn’t got a middle, and he hasn’t got a back,
And he isn't named Donald, and he doesn’t go "QUACK!".

(Repeat Chorus)

[BiggJawn]

11. Caption for that third picture:

"Dang! I wouldn'a swung them fellers around so hard if I'd knew they weren't rooted any better'n THIS!"

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Damn! What a clam!

Thanks...That's fascinating!