Chinese Mafia Harvests Geoduck In Puget Sound

In Washington's Puget Sound waterways the Chinese Mafia illegally is harvesting the geoduck clam as reported by Tracy Vedder for KOMO: 

"It's very similar to what you would see with drug cartels," says WDFW Captain Ed Volz, "except these are clams ... big ugly clams worth a lot of money." In Asia - particularly China - geoduck is a prized delicacy. And here, both law enforcement and a convicted poacher and geoduck insider tell me the Chinese mafia controls much of the market. * * * "We know that in fact organized crime money is being funneled to companies in the continental United States," says Capt. Volz.