Tacoma, Wash., Fisherman Makes Millions in Geoduck Clams.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: September 30, 2003 | Copyright information

By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 30--Nearly three years ago, Gig Harbor fisherman Doug McRae signed a $2,500 lease on tideland owned by Pierce County, and then sold $2.5 million in geoduck clams taken there.

A county lawyer, who admits the lease was a mistake, persuaded a judge to invalidate the lease in July. Now she is trying to recover the value of the highly prized bivalves -- a Japanese culinary...

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