Daniel McRae, Derrick’s brother, unloading a bag of harvested geoduck clams on their boat near Illahee State Park in Bremerton, Washington. — AP
FOR over two decades, Suquamish tribal member Joshua George has dived into the emerald waters of the Salish Sea in Washington state looking for an unusually phallic clam that’s coveted thousands of kilometres away.
George is a geoduck diver. Pronounced “gooey-duck,” the world’s largest burrowing clam has been harvested in tidelands by George’s indigenous ancestors in the US Pacific Northwest since before Europeans arrived.
