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