We Should All Respect the Geoduck

I know what you’re thinking.

No, I won’t insist you drag your mind out of the gutter, because frankly everyone thinks it. The geoduck, the animal that accounts for more of Puget Sound’s biomass than any other organism, perhaps Washington’s most idiosyncratic animal, is phallic. It looks like the eggplant emoji; a big ol’ you-know-what.

Let’s all be snotty adolescents for a moment and get our snickers out now. Because compared to the Panopea generosa, we are exactly that, juveniles. Unlike the manila clam and the Pacific oyster and the farmed Atlantic salmon and the walleye and the catfish that live in Washington waters, the geoduck is as native

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