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of horseshoe crabs?

- Report locations where you see horseshoe crabs spawning on iNaturalist.

- Rescue stranded horseshoe crabs. Many states have organizations that train and coordinate volunteers in crab rescue.

- Volunteer to assist with a horseshoe crab survey. Most states conduct beach surveys on certain spawning nights that may also include tagging horseshoe crabs.

Contact your state representative and ask that your state marine fish units devote more time to monitoring both the bait and blood industry. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) only recommends horseshoe crab quotas and methods of take to the states, but the states are the entities that actually regulate. Ask your representative to compel state marine agencies to better regulate the killing of horseshoe crabs or create a moratorium until the industry responds.

If you are near a beach on the Atlantic coast where horseshoe crabs spawn, there are several ways to get involved through community science efforts:

Contact your local congressional representative or senator to express why it's important not to allow commercial fishing interests to dominate decisions to kill horseshoe crabs for bait. Horseshoe crabs are not worthless - they are essential to a functioning ecosystem. You can also ask the federal government to stop the killing of crabs for their blood and speed the transition to the synthetic alternative known as rFC.

What can you do to stop the killing

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Create a state working group or join an existing group within the Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition to develop new volunteer-based surveys of horseshoe crabs to help determine their status. The ASMFC refuses to acknowledge the importance of horseshoe crab eggs, but working groups can do it for them. State working groups can also rescue horseshoe crabs from impingement and take part in the stewardship of horseshoe crabs and migratory shorebirds that depend on them.

The Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition is made up of organizations across the Atlantic Coast, from fishing captains to bird conservation organizations to biomedical companies, that all understand the critical role horseshoe crabs play in our marine ecosystem. Watch to find out how your organization can become a member of the HCRC.

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Today, the Coalition is celebrating World Mangrove Day, adopted as 7/26 by UNESCO to promote mangrove forest conservation

Mangrove forests are used by the American Horseshoe Crab in FL & the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico & in Asia by the Mangrove Horseshoe Crab

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Human exploitation of horseshoe crabs as use for fertilizer, bait, and to be bled for biomedical testing, has had a devastating impact on populations. Today, July 28th, the Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition embraces World Nature Conservation Day - dedicated to highlight the urgent need to manage natural resources sustainably, with a special need to protect vulnerable species.This day calls for action to promote and advocate for sustainable practices.The use of recombinant bacterial endotoxin testing in the biomedical industry, as opposed to using products derived from the blood of horseshoe crabs (such as LAL), will help restore populations of horseshoe crabs and the species that depend upon them to ecological significance, while maintaining patient safety and the safe supply of medicine.#WorldNatureConservationDay #WorldNatureConservationDay2026 ... See MoreSee Less

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