Northwest Reel Life March 2025 Volume 4 Issue 5 - Flipbook - Page 13
The 10-year average is $35.9
million for 70 digging dates
with 307,041 digger trips.
The 20-year average is
$30.6 million for 57 digging
dates with 297,174 digger
trips.
COASTAL RAZOR CLAMRELATED ACTIVITIES
The free Ocean Shores
Razor Clam Festival,
organized by the
Convention Center and
City of Ocean Shores,
is happening on March
21-23. There will be food
vendors; exhibitors; live
music; Dungeness crab
meal (advanced ticket
purchase recommended);
a Sunday seafood brunch
(advanced ticket purchase
required); chowder cookoff
and tasting passport
available to sample
and vote on Friday and
Saturday; and a razor clam
gun decorating contest.
No razor clam digging will
be allowed during those
days because low tides
aren’t conducive to digging.
For details, go to https://
tourismoceanshores.com/
razor-clam-and-seafoodfestival/.
The Long Beach Peninsula
Razor Clam & Shellfish
Festival, hosted by the
Long Beach Merchants
Association, is April 26-27
at the Veterans Field in
Long Beach. There will be
food vendors; exhibitors;
live music; clam digging
lessons; restaurant chowder
taste-off; amateur chowder
cook-off; oyster shucking;
crab plates; smallest and
biggest clam contest. For
details, go to https://www.
longbeachmerchants.com/
razor-clam-festival.
(Mark Yuasa is a
Washington Department
of Fish and Wildlife
Communications Manager.
He also was the outdoor
reporter at The Seattle
Times for 28 years.)
