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On the eve of the Chinese New Year of the Native American tribes of the Puget Sound enjoyed an explosion in exports to China of products such as shellfish, including geoduck - the largest in the nature of edible shellfish.
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1. geoduck divers collected in Puget Sound near Sukuamisha, Washington. Geoduck - the largest edible shellfish - is a valuable delicacy in Asian culture. Prices for its exports rose to nearly $ 15 per pound (ok.450 grams), although in the beginning of January it reached a total of 8 dollars.





2. The captain of the boat Kevin George on deck under the name "Casino." Sukuamish, skokomish, Lummen, kuilety, Tulalip, puyyallup and four tribes formed the organization "Archipelago sovereign nations" engaged in trade in the Pacific Ocean.



3. deckhands Michael Rogers (right) helps a diver Tun Chikuitti climb aboard. This year, local divers underwater produced delicacies worth over two million dollars, among them - Pacific crab and oysters, the cost of which will fly several times, once they get into the Christmas menu Asian restaurants



4. Diver Dustin Nichols coming on board. Indian divers, some of whom earn up to $ 5,000 a day, do not pay any federal or income tax. Since too few members of the tribe sukuamish received a license to collect shellfish diver - one of the most valuable "profession" here.



5. Mr. Rodgers gets network geoduck, which is filled with underwater divers.



6. Box geoduck collected on the deck. Geoduck can reach a weight of up to 9 kg, it is usually the size of a ball of bowling.



7. Captain George cuts geoduck, to share with the team. CEO «Suquamish Seafoods Enterprise» Robin Jordan believes that this single clam can be in more than one hundred different dishes, such as in sashimi, for which the customer is easy to give up $ 1,000.



8. The members of the team and seasoned divers are eating pieces of geoduck. These nutritious and succulent shellfish can also lightly fry or make soup out of them.



9. diver shows his tattoo



10. The police periodically combs noticeably water in search of poachers. In this photo, a police officer Michael Stewart boarded a boat "Casino", the task of collecting geoduck clams



11. Nichols (left) and Chikuitti help unload boxes of clams in Brownsville, Washington. Now geoduck seed sukuamish earns $ 6 million a year



12. Due to the huge collection of mollusks here became possible to finance the construction of a processing plant in 1995. On the income from the sale of shellfish seed could buy a new golf course and extend the old casino «Clearwater». Photo: Charlie Brown helps unload boxes of clams.



13. Catch the geoduck in deep waters - not an easy job, and that's what Charlie Brown wants to do in the future. In the meantime, 26-year-old weighs shellfish and packages them in an ice factory in preparation for the 15-hour flight to Asia.



14. A member of the tribe sukuamish David Mills senior tide waits to collect discarded beach Silverdeyla shellfish. Small specimens are sold here.



15. The members of the tribe sukuamish dig clams on the beach in Silverdeyle. In addition there is also harvested molluscs salmon, crabs and sea cucumbers.



16. Charlie Brown geoduck packs for transportation to a plant in Polsbo, Washington.



17. Charlie Brown loads trucks at the plant. He says that some members of the tribe to eat geoduck, and the older generation can eat them even to break shells. "But I'm in this shit I will not touch - he says, wincing. - Once I mess around with them all day ... you can not even imagine that I'm dreaming. "



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