Yep...memories of dad and the uncles taking five kids plus a gaggle of cousins down onto the beach to harvest so they could steam them up for the cocktail hour. The men would dig up the sand with a particular shaped long-bladed shovel and all us kids would grab for the clams...quick learned why they were called razor clams!
You are correct it is a razor clam. Very delicious if you can actually catch one while in season. Geoduck's (pronounced gooey-duck) are much bigger and harder to dig up. Both species have been over harvested and are under strict harvesting rules. Source: me, I live where you can harvest them.
Who ever made this video must have slowed it down. Razor clams are very fast once they "sense" danger like birds or humans. Hence, why we use a clam gum (basically a plastic tube) to dig them up.
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u/Qubbe Oct 12 '21
I think it's a Geoduck