SHELTON -- Puget Sound tribes and commercial shellfish growers celebrated a $33 million treaty rights settlement Friday with a ceremonial signing of the agreement that ends years of legal dispute.

The Washington State Department of Health this week awarded $5.5 million to restore and protect shellfish habitats across Puget Sound. The funds will go toward 11 proposed projects as part of the ...

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 ...

Shellfish farmers like Ramiro Cordero, who works for Taylor Shellfish Farms in Bay Center, Washington, are used to being in uncomfortable positions and places. Farmers kneel in the sand, elbow-deep in ...