Head to the Shores 

With a salt water canal at its center and a myriad of lakes, waterfalls and streams surrounding the inner fingers of Puget Sound – this area is rich in aquaculture and water related opportunities. It’s time to start planning your outdoor adventures!

If you harvest clams or oysters, make sure to keep them on ice or eat them soon after harvest. It is best practice to read posted warnings or call the Marine Toxins/ PSP Hotline: 1-800-562-5632 for a recorded message that is updated regularly.

Always Check BEFORE you dig.Visit the Shellfish Safety Map at doh.wa.gov/ShellfishSafety. There is also a mobile friendly version of the map at doh.wa.gov/ shellfishmobilemap. Clam and oyster season are beach specific and may change annually.

Boat access only. Oysters are incidental at this site but clamming can be good. This beach is a popular place to dig for geoducks at a tide lower than minus 2.0'. The seasons only open for the month of May.

Abundant manila clams and an enhanced oyster bed. The season here is short, May and September only.

Open year-round, good shore access with parking. Manila clams and oysters can be found here.

Excellent beach for oysters.

Clams, mussels, and oysters open April 1 through August 31

Open year round, excellent for oysters and native clams. Clamming is difficult due to the cobble substrate, but the beach is abundant with butter clams.

Open year round, excellent for oysters. A variety of clams can be found here although not in great densities.

Open year round for oysters and seasonally for clams, check season before harvesting. Good beach for Manila clams.

Are boat access only beaches, open year-round for clams and oysters.

Open year-round for oysters and seasonally for clams, check seasons before harvesting. This is an excellent oyster beach.

There is very little clam resource on this beach, but there are good numbers of year-round oysters.

This is an excellent beach for clams. The best areas are in the mid-upper tidal zone in mixed sand and gravel substrate. Productive digging is also found around and among the oysters, an area often overlooked by harvesters. Please take care not to cover oysters with sand and mud as this will potentially kill the oysters.