In a dark fish tank at a government-run lab, a bright sea snail scuttles out from its hiding place. ... Pinto abalone poaching in Puget Sound was rampant in the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s.

Every day, thousands of pounds of geoducks extracted from the floor of Puget Sound get loaded onto airplanes and shipped across the world, where the delicacy commands a high price. The prized clam ...

MUKILTEO, Wash. – In a dark fish tank at a government-run lab, ... Pinto abalone poaching in Puget Sound was rampant in the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s.

In Washington state, clams, oysters and mussels are being poached from the Puget Sound and sold for thousands of dollars. The most in-demand of these is the geoduck, which can sell for $150 a pound.

Midnight Patrol. It’s past 11 p.m. on a rainy January in Puget Sound. Clouds blot out the moon and the stars, making it nearly impossible to tell where the sky ends and the water begins.

MARYSVILLE, Wash. -- Two Tulalip tribal members are accused of poaching possibly thousands of crab from Puget Sound.The two men were arrested after selling the crab at a Marysville nail salon ...

The state and tribal Puget Sound Dungeness crab fisheries landed a total of 11.8 ... Popular bait includes fish carcasses and ... Poaching crabs by pulling another angler’s crab pot ...

When Welch found time to write the book “Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty” (William Morrow, 288 pp., $25.99), it had morphed from a Puget Sound saga to an ...

Puget Sound has hundreds of millions of geoducks, a seemingly endless supply. But each time a geoduck bed is harvested, it takes about 40 years for the population there to recover.

Poachers are illegally harvesting and selling Puget Sound shellfish in back-alley deals. Detectives are on the case, trying to protect natural resources and public health. July 1, 2025 ...

That’s when the Puget Sound Anglers-North Olympic Peninsula chapter stepped in to save one last run, voluntarily clipping 55,000 steelhead in June that were already hatched. The effort saved the state ...