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  State accuses B.C. firm in geoduck theft
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News DateThursday, February 3, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionState Attorney General Rob McKenna is seeking millions of dollars in damages from a Canadian seafood supplier for allegedly financing and participating in a geoduck-poaching operation.

The attorney general contends that Clear Bay Fishers Inc. of British Columbia knowingly bought more than $1.5 million worth of geoducks stolen from state-owned bedlands in southern Puget Sound, according to a civil lawsuit filed yesterday in Thurston County Superior Court.

The complaint alleges that Clear Bay and its officers agreed to finance a poaching operation organized by Douglas Martin Tobin in return for the rights to buy his geoducks. In 2000 and 2001, the company is believed to have purchased more than 130,000 pounds of stolen geoducks from him.

Tobin, a member of the Squaxin Island Tribe, is serving a 14-year prison sentence for geoduck theft and trafficking in poached shellfish, among other crimes.
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