They've been tipped off that Esca, a high-end seafood restaurant on 43rd, serves this fish.

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They call Esca and Simon Dean, the restaurant manager, lets them in through a side door on 43rd.

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The conservation officers busted David Pasternack, an Iron Chef contestant, for attempting to sell illegal striped bass at his high-end and much-celebrated seafood restaurant, Esca.

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Esca is known for its fresh fish, particularly its crudo (Italian-style raw fish), and Pasternack was the subject of a fawning 2005 profile in The New Yorker.

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