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The best way to recover our horseshoe crab populations is by building a movement. Sign up to connect to our campaign and receive alerts about developments in your state.

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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 a naturalist type, help us find spawning horseshoe crabs by reporting them to citizen science services such as iNaturalist. By locating and recording horseshoe crab spawning locations, we can help build a robust data-set that will help drive science-based 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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The National Park Service is studying movements of horseshoe crabs at Cape Cod National Seashore, MA.

They are using tags to determine if horseshoe crabs stay in East Harbor or are leaving the harbor for Cape Cod Bay. Watch the video to learn more.

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/06/understanding-horseshoe-crabs-cape-cod-national-seashore

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The National Park Service has begun a study at Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts to study the movements of horseshoe crabs in East Harbor.Through using multiple types of tags, they will determine if horseshoe crabs remain in the harbor or if they are leaving the harbor for Cape Cod Bay. Watch the video from Lower Cape TV to learn more.www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/06/understanding-horseshoe-crabs-cape-cod-national-seashore ... See MoreSee Less

Understanding Horseshoe Crabs At Cape Cod National Seashore

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National parks aren't just beautiful places, or rich iin history, but perfect spots to conduct science. At Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts, there's a National Park Service research project...

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