What are goie duct clams?

Answer 1

They did a segment about them on Dirty Jobs recently. They're these big gross clams that look like big penises covered in slime. They're a deliquesce, but I would never eat them.

Answer 2

Latin name: Panopea abrupta
Superfamily: Hiatellidae
Family: Hiatellidae

"The common name for geoduck has a native American origin, meaning "dig deep", a reference to humans or sea otters digging them. The scientific name is Panopea abrupta

The geoduck clam is sometimes spelled: goeduck, goiduck, or gweduck.

The Chinese call the geoduck the "elephant trunk clam"

Native to the northern Pacific coasts of Canada and the United States of America, that is, along the coasts of Washington state and the province of British Columbia. About 109 million adult geoducks are packed into Puget Sound's sediments ­ the biggest bunch of marine animals in the Sound.

The geoduck is the largest intertidal clam (and the largest burrowing clam) in the world with an average weight of approximately 2.2 lbs.

Geoducks are most often found at depths between 10 and 80 feet below the mean low tide mark.

The geoduck feeds on phytoplankton.

Answer 3

Geoducks are a type of large Pacific clam that we have in Puget Sound..they look like a regular clam except huge with a very large neck, they can get to be about 3-4 or more pounds, one clam and you have a meal for many people.

Answer 4

If i'm not wrong these are large shaped clams with part of the internal sticking out like an elephant's trunk