Starting in May 2025, there will be a new set of quality standards for the pharmaceutical industry to move away from using horseshoe crabs for drug testing. NJ Spotlight News' contributing writer Jon ...

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has approved a new model for analyzing wildlife that would guide quotas beyond just male crabs. New Jersey has a moratorium on horseshoe crab harvesting ...

Wildlife protection advocates are welcoming a decision by the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission to approve protections for horseshoe crabs during spawning, which is when the creatures ...

Several habitats for threatened shorebirds and spawning horseshoe crabs will be protected for five years after a federal judge in Charleston approved a consent order that stops three groups from ...

Horseshoe crab harvesting has been prohibited on nearly 30 beaches in South Carolina this spawning season until further order from a district court in a resolution agreed to by opposing groups with ...

A gradual ban on the commercial harvest of horseshoe crabs for bait and biomedical uses in New York State was cheered by conservationists but blasted by fishermen. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an amended ...

NORTH BEACH, Md. — A group of volunteers in North Beach, Maryland is rescuing thousands of horseshoe crabs that become trapped in the shorefront riprap rock installed to protect the town. The ...