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Restaurant owner busted with bear parts
« on: September 16, 2025, 07:15:08 AM »
Don’t know if this has been posted yet, OR if this is the proper place.

https://wdfw.wa.gov/newsroom/news-release/skagit-county-woman-sentenced-wildlife-trafficking

Kinda funny to me to think that it wouldn’t even cross my mind to try to sell a bear paw or let alone a gall bladder to someone.  And here this lady is with a whole pile of ‘em!

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Re: Restaurant owner busted with bear parts
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2025, 07:27:39 AM »
I kind of understood the paws, but what why would anyone want a bear’s gall bladder!?!? 🤨 So I had to google this one.  Apparently it’s used in traditional medicine in various Asian countries, but more surprisingly is what they sell for over there!  Per Google:

“Asia: Depending on the location and whether the bear was wild or captive, prices vary widely.

South Korea: As of 2019, a wild bear gallbladder could sell for around $10,000. In 1994, traditional Chinese medicine doctors reported willingness to pay between $1,000 and $18,000.

China: Bile powder from captive bears was priced at approximately $3 per gram in 2011.

Japan: The price for powdered bile averaged $153 per gram in 2011.”

That’s wild to me.

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Re: Restaurant owner busted with bear parts
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2025, 08:00:16 AM »
Seems like a victimless crime. Assuming bears aren’t being killed just to have certain parts stripped. My Chinese friends go Crazy for Bear paws.

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Re: Restaurant owner busted with bear parts
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2025, 08:01:22 AM »
Big surprise, she’s Asian  :rolleyes: 
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Re: Restaurant owner busted with bear parts
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2025, 08:11:28 AM »
why do you think the largest buyer of deer and elk horns usually are bought by Asian buyers. If my memory is any good, there was a group of folks just killing bears for their feet and just taking the galls.

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Re: Restaurant owner busted with bear parts
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2025, 08:17:56 AM »
Sounds like Operation Cody
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Re: Restaurant owner busted with bear parts
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2025, 09:48:41 AM »
That was my thought!

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Re: Restaurant owner busted with bear parts
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2025, 11:34:44 AM »
Sounds like Operation Cody

This sounds like a chapter right out of Todd’s books. Next chapter, supplier/potential poacher.

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Re: Restaurant owner busted with bear parts
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2025, 01:33:44 PM »
why do you think the largest buyer of deer and elk horns usually are bought by Asian buyers. If my memory is any good, there was a group of folks just killing bears for their feet and just taking the galls.

There are lots of people who kill bears and only take the skull or hide. Disgusting.

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Re: Restaurant owner busted with bear parts
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2025, 01:50:53 PM »
Her name tella you everything you need to know  :stirthepot:

 


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