LEWES, Del. (AP) — Researchers announced Wednesday that a new bait alternative may help reduce the number of horseshoe crabs harvested to be used as bait. Female horseshoe crabs are considered ...

The crabs are used as bait for eels and sea snails. Their blue blood is also used to test for potentially dangerous impurities by drug and medical device makers. The animals are harvested from ...

The horseshoe crabs have been harvested for use as bait and medicine from Florida to Maine over the years, though the largest harvests are in Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts and Virginia.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission decided to forgo a 2024 bait harvest of female horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay. Here's all to know.

Multiple environmental groups are now asking the U.S. government to designate horseshoe crabs as an endangered species. This segment aired on June 20, 2024. Here & Now: Editors' Picks Advertisement ...

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission decided to forgo a 2024 bait harvest of female horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay. Here's all to know.

WHAT TO KNOW The State Legislature has agreed to ban the taking of American horseshoe crabs as bait for commercial fishing and for biomedical use. With restrictions in place in New Jersey ...

Under the law, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has until the end of 2024 to create new regulations for “crabs of any kind,” including horseshoe crabs, which are used ...

LONG BRANCH, N.J. — The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted today to temporarily halt the harvest of female horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay, a crucial nesting area and stopover habitat ...

FILE – Horseshoe crabs sit at Reeds Beach in Cape May Court House, N.J., June 13, 2023. Interstate fishing regulators are limiting the harvest of the primordial species of invertebrate to try to ...

Multiple environmental groups are now asking the U.S. government to designate horseshoe crabs as an endangered species. This segment aired on June 20, 2024.