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Birds and Crabs get a break in NJ

March 25, 2008 on 1:03 pm | In Ecosystem, Endangered |

New Jersey gave a boost to both the horseshoe crab and the red knot. The red knot relies on horseshoe crab eggs as an essential food.  The red knot visits the mid-Atlantic coast on its yearly migration.  This break came in the form of a law that will ban horseshoe crab harvesting such time as the crab and red knot populations return to normal level (that to be determined by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).

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