The FBI searched the Washington office of Global Fishing, a company founded by an alleged illegal fisherman from Russia. 

From the Seattle Times:

FBI and federal fisheries agents on Wednesday searched the Bellevue office of Global Fishing, whose founder Arkadi Gontmakher is currently detained in Moscow and charged by the Russian government with trafficking in black-market king crab.

The FBI and officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed the search was part of a pending federal investigation into Global Fishing, which in 2006 and 2007 was the largest importer of Russian king crab with sales of $148 million.

Documents detailing the investigation are filed in federal court under seal, according to Brian Gorman, a spokesman for NOAA Fisheries.

Gontmakher has long been accused of illegally fishing. 

In 2006 and 2007, Gontmakher’s massive imports of Russian king crab were marketed in grocery stores across the United States and helped drive down the price for U.S. consumers.

But the imports drew complaints from Alaska king-crab fishermen, who suspected that the imports were based upon illegal harvests of Russian Far East stocks.

Based on those complaints, U.S. fishery-enforcement officials began their own investigation of Russian king-crab imports. That effort was already under way when Gontmakher was detained in Moscow.

The illegal fishing market is estimated at $16.5 billion.