For 40 years, researchers relied on horseshoe crab blood to catch endotoxins in drugs. Now, synthetic alternatives and ...

Horseshoe crab ancestors first appeared in the fossil record 450 million years ago. But climate change and harvesting are ...

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.

The Delaware Bay horseshoe crab population has been increasing over the last two decades, which is an encouraging sign, said John Clark, chair of the Atlantic States horseshoe crab management ...

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.

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.

The Atlantic horseshoe crab, the species harvested on the East Coast, ranges from the Gulf of Maine to Florida. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as being ...

9. A horseshoe crab’s pointed tail is not for self-defense. Horseshoe crabs are easily jostled by ocean currents and waves — and each other.

06.03.2008 – Southport, CT – A horseshoe crab makes its way back into Long Island Sound after being caught by second graders from Unqouwa School in Westport and being tagged by Jennifer Mattei ...

Horseshoe crabs gather on Delaware Bay beaches to spawn from May through early June, with the most seen during new and full moon high tides. The next new moon is May 27. The next full moon is June 11.

The regulatory Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission said it will allow no harvest of female horseshoe crabs that originate in the Delaware Bay during the 2024 fishing season. The Delaware ...