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Dateline conducted an eight month investigation into the thriving blackmarket in bootlegged shellfish. Dateline discovered that harvesting and selling shellfish illegally from polluted waters happens far more often than the public and government regulators realize. The investigation was able to show how perhaps 10 percent of the shellfish market -- about 17 million clams and oysters -- are harvested illegally each year. (April 14, May 14, 1996)