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[Heron329@xxxxxxx]

Actually, there is a good case to be made for protecting the horseshoe crabs. 
  Their blood is used for medical reasons.   About 150,000 crabs a year are 
captured, blood is removed, and they are returned to the water.   Some die, but 
many survive. 

I think they are interesting.   At our place on the Chesapeake Bay we used to 
have them wash up after storms, and I would find them upside-down on the 
beach, waving their claws frantically.   I would walk up and down the beach and 
return them to the bay.

I never see them anymore.   We used to have shorebirds on the beach, but now 
seldom see them, either.

Margaret