In 2025, the last full year of PacFIN data, West Coast commercial fishermen landed 167.3 thousand pounds of butter clam worth $168.9 thousand, averaging $1.01 per pound. Ex-vessel value rose 50% from 2024, and average price per pound rose 7%. Ranked by total catch value, butter clam is 54th among the 263 species and species groups reported to PacFIN and tracked by Cormorant.
Washington landings of butter clam total less than 1% of ex-vessel value (or are confidential) and are not charted.
All reported 2025 ex-vessel value for butter clam came from Oregon, though landings also occurred in Washington in small or confidential amounts. It was landed in 3 of the 19 PacFIN port areas, 2 of them confidential, with reported landings only at Tillamook and confidential landings as far north as Southern Puget Sound, Washington, and as far south as Coos Bay. Tillamook accounted for virtually all reported value.
Port areas ranked by ex-vessel value with landed weight and price per pound.
2 port areas had only confidential butter clam data and are excluded from these rankings.
Butter clam is landed through much of the year, but 88% of 2025 landed pounds came in May–October, with August the busiest month.
Butter clam is landed entirely with other gear (100% of its 2025 West Coast ex-vessel value, based on PacFIN gear-group landings).
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Data sourced from PacFIN (Pacific Fisheries Information Network) and carries the limitations of that source, including reporting lags and confidentiality thresholds for landings with fewer than 3 vessels. Cormorant does not guarantee accuracy and is not a substitute for official fisheries reporting.