Rutgers lab churning out baby horseshoe crabs
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Saving Seafood] - September 30, 2014 -
LOWER TOWNSHIP, N.J., Six thousand baby horseshoe crabs are making their way in the waters near Cape May this weekend, thanks to a Rutgers University center that grows and releases them into the wild.
The New Jersey Aquaculture Innovation Center released the hatchlings, each tinier than a child's fingernail, into the Cape May Canal on Friday.
The center has released 250,000 of the young crabs over the past two years. t's part of an effort to replenish the population of horseshoe crabs, which is under pressure from habitat loss, commercial fishing that uses them as bait for whelk and eels (New Jersey prohibits harvesting them but neighboring Delaware does not), pollution and poachers.
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