date:May 28, 2014
sewhere in Asia, but it's been slow.
The US exported more than $60 million of geoducks clams last year - up from $21 million in 2004 - with a majority of the trade stemming from the Northwestern US, according to the Wall Street Journal.
China first imposed the ban after identifying high levels of inorganic arsenic in a shipment of giant geoduck clams from Washington's Puget Sound. Around the same time, a separate batch of geoducks from Alaska was found to contain paralytic shellfish poisonin