| Delaware Conch Fishermen Successfully Repeal Moratorium on Horseshoe Crab Harvesting |
Date: 06/07 |
| Taiwan: HSC Sightings in Chiayi Taiwan |
Date: 06/07 |
| Crabs Give Blood For Space Travel |
Date: 11/06 |
| China: Prehistoric horseshoe crab under threat in Hong Kong |
Date: 10/06 |
| No emergency listing for threatened red knot |
Date: 09/06 |
| Japan: Art Show in Kasaoka |
Date: 08/06 |
| Getting on their good side |
Date: 08/06 |
| Communities Create Horseshoe Crab Sanctuaries |
Date: Summer 06 |
| Big news from Japan: 九十九島の超巨大のカブトガニ |
Date: Summer 06 |
| Bird Patterns Change: Red knots split feeding grounds, raising questions on future |
Date: 06/04/06 |
| Waterman feels crabby: Officials dispute his claim that state hurting fisheries |
Date: 06/01/06 |
| Carper sees economic need to rebuild Mispillion jetty |
Date: 05/20/06 |
| Horseshoe crab spawning attracts a crowd |
Date: 05/17/06 |
| To Save a Shorebird, Horseshoe Crabbing Is Banned in New Jersey |
Date: 05/16/06 |
| Moratorium on horseshoe crabs rejected by ASMFC |
Date: 05/12/06 |
| U.S. backs limits but no horseshoe-crabbing ban |
Date: 05/10/06 |
| Meeting set for Monday to focus on horseshoe crab moratorium |
Date: 04/09/06 |
| Oil Spill Damage to wildlife minimal |
Date: 04/06 |
Crab Blood is Gold (Or why a living fossil may save your life)
Chris Brunson examines the medical uses of the horseshoe crab |
Date: 07/18/06 |
| A tangle over crabbing, red knots (pdf) |
Date: 02/26/06 |
| Crabbing ban for the birds (pdf) |
Date: 02/08/06 |
| House panel tables measure to halt horseshoe-crab catch (pdf) |
Date: 02/03/06 |
| U.S. agency draws fire for red knot decision (pdf) |
Date: 01/16/06 |
| Feds deny request on red knot; group says birds face extinction (pdf) |
Date: 01/13/06 |
| Indian Government Moves to Protect Horseshoe Crabs: MoEF promises prompt action |
Date: 12/26/05 |
| Indian Horseshoe Crabs in Serious Decline |
Date: 12/22/05 |
| Trailing the Ancient Mariner (pdf) |
Date: 06/05 |
| Slaughter Beach, Delaware becomes ERDG's forth community based horseshoe crab sanctuary |
Date: 07/05 |
| Mispillion inlet a nexus of concern |
Date: 07/05 |
Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crabs are Thriving!
Letter to the Editor from Carl Shuster |
Date: 07/05 |
News Journal: Letters to the Editor
Horseshoe crabs are sustainable without stringent limits on fishery |
Date: 06/18/05 |
| Mispillion Inlet: a mix of watermen, waterfowl and horseshoe crabs |
Date: 06/17/05 |
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Fishermen blast crabbing moratorium
Environmentalists hope to protect red knots
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Date: 06/12/05
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Horseshoe Crabs' Decline Further Imperils Shorebirds
Mid-Atlantic States Searching for Ways to Reverse Trend
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Date: 06/10/05
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Drop halts NJ Horseshoe Crab Harvest (pdf)
State calls two-week moratorium due to shortage of migratory red knots
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Date: 06/10/05
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Thousands of Horseshoe Crabs Perish (pdf)
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Date: 06/09/05
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| Alternative Gear and Supplemental Bait Workshop, Summary |
Date: 03/03/04 |
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Local Heroes: Meet 10 people who are saving the planet (pdf)
OnEarth magazine features Glenn Gauvry and ERDG
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Date: 10/06/03
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Milton: trading balloons for crabs
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Date: 7/18/03
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Kitts Hummock forms sanctuary for horseshoe crabs (pdf)
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Date: 7/15/03
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A multi-year horseshoe crab tagging study will begin this spring in the Delaware Bay
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Date: 4/15/03
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Horseshoe crab named Delaware's official marine animal
The horseshoe crab, known to generations of locals as the king crab, now really is king. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner last week signed legislation that made it Delaware's official marine animal.
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Date: 7/07/02
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Decrease in Crabs Raises Concerns
For hundreds of millions of years, horseshoe crabs have spawned with relatively little fanfare. This spring, however, as they have hauled themselves up on the beaches of Delaware Bay, they have been counted, collected for bait, observed, and argued over.
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Date: 5/27/02
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NOAA FISHERIES AWARDS $10,000 GRANT TO CONTINUE HORSESHOE CRAB CONSERVATION
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service has awarded a $10,000 grant to Ecological Research and Development Group, a Delaware-based horseshoe crab conservation organization. The conservation group will use the funds to continue saving thousands of horseshoe crabs by providing a no-cost way for mid-Atlantic conch and whelk fishermen to use fewer of the prehistoric anthropods as bait. NOAA is an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department.
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Date: 2/25/02
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horseshoecrab.org Wins Award
On September 5th, 2001, the Ecological Research & Development Group Inc. received the Exploratorium's "Ten Cool Sites Award" for September 2001 for educational excellence.
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Date: 9/5/01
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Horseshoe Crabs and NASA
The horseshoe crab's highly developed sensitivity to endotoxins, has been seized upon by another industry that worries about bacteria: NASA. NASA's Planetary Protection Program has discovered the value of the Limulus
Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) test in maintaining a sterile environment for its Mars missions.
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Date: 9/3/01
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ERDG completes Phase II of its bait bag initiative
Delaware’s Governor Ruth Ann Minner stated,"Kent Sussex Industries does an outstanding job and I am pleased that they are going to have the additional benefit of helping to conserve horseshoe crabs. ERDG is to be commended for working on solutions to this issue. Indeed, ERDG, Glenn Gauvry and volunteers, should all be commended for this particular creative solution to an important conservation issue."
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Date: 7/30/01
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Counting Crabs (link to audio)
Until recently, the horseshoe crab was considered to be little more than a pest. When they come ashore to spawn, many die, rot and ruin beaches. The Bay of the Delaware River has the greatest concentration of horseshoes in the world. Five years ago, the spawning dropped suddenly. States all along the Atlantic coast moved swiftly to protect the horseshoe, including limiting its catch. But scientists cannot say if enough has been done to help it recover because there is so little information about the horseshoe crab. Bruce Schimmel joined one team getting ready to track and count horseshoes as they are about to come ashore and spawn at Prime Hook Beach in Delaware.
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Date: 6/8/01
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NOAA Fisheries Closes Area To Fishing For Horseshoe Crabs
NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service has banned fishing for horseshoe crabs in federal waters off the mouth of Delaware Bay. The ban provides additional protection for local stocks and ensures that declining populations of migratory shorebirds have an abundant source of horseshoe crab eggs to feed upon when they stop to rest in Delaware Bay before moving north to their Canadian nesting areas. The agency published a final rule that will implement the closed area on March 7, 2001.
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Excellence in the Estuary Award
On September 28, 2000 the Ecological Research & Development Group Inc. received the "Excellence in the Estuary Award" from the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc. "for their tireless work to protect the Delaware Estuary's horseshoe crab population." The awards were established to recognize organizations, agencies and individuals doing outstanding work to protect, enhance, and sustain the Delaware Estuary.
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Date: 9/28/00
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Horseshoe Crab Bait Bags are adopted by the Virginia Conch Fishery
The use of ERDG's bait bags has reduced the demand for horseshoe crabs as bait by up to 50%.
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Date: 9/1/00
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U. S. Secretary of Commerce announces plans to establish Delaware Bay horseshoe crab preserve
LEWES — As a result of his earlier efforts to protect horseshoe crabs, Governor Thomas R. Carper today received word from the United States Department of Commerce that a horseshoe crab moratorium will be in place by late October.
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Date: 8/8/00
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Carper calls for horseshoe crab preservation and awards regional contest winners
Governor Thomas R. Carper today saluted regional students for their horseshoe crab preservation efforts and he continued to press the federal government to ban fishing of the 350-million-year-old species around the mouth of Delaware Bay. To intensify the horseshoe crab conservation efforts, officials also announced that Broadkill Beach should be a horseshoe crab sanctuary by the end of the summer, a declaration that will officially ban the harvesting of the species along the community’s 3.8-mile coastline.
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Date: 6/13/00
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Broadkill Beach Delaware Becomes a Horseshoe Crab Sanctuary
The Ecological Research & Development Group Inc., in partnership with the Broadkill Beach Preservation Association and the residents of Broadkill Beach, Delaware, designated 2.5 miles of this communities 3.8 miles of beach as a horseshoe crab sanctuary.
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Date: 5/31/00
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ERDG Volunteers Assist in Y2K Shorebird Management Study at Prime Hook NWR
The USFWS, Region 5 Division of Refuges and Wildlife is undertaking a cooperative study with the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center to help identify the contribution and management potential for migrating shorebirds on several National Wildlife Refuges along or near the Delaware Bay and coastal areas of the Atlantic Ocean. Sixteen National Wildlife Refuges from Maine to Virginia will be participating in this planned two-year study to include the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge located in Milton, Delaware.
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Date: 5/19/00
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ISFMP Policy Board Recommends Virginia Be Found
Out of Compliance with Addendum I to the Horseshoe Crab FMP
Alexandria, Virginia -The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Interstate Fisheries Management Program (ISFMP) Policy Board has recommended that the Commonwealth of Virginia be found out-of-compliance, effective May 1, 2000, with the required landings cap provision of Addendum I to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for horseshoe crab.
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ERDG Completes Phase I of its Bait Bag Initiative
The Ecological Research & Development Group (ERDG), in partnership with the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS) Sea Grant program and Delaware's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) has manufactured 500 bait bags and distributed them to Virginia fishermen.
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Date: 10/19/99
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Alternative Bait Workshop (Minutes )
The Ecological Research & Development Group (ERDG), offers to manufacture and distribute a particular type of bait bag being successfully used by Frank Eicherly IV a Milford, Delaware, conch fisherman.
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Date: 10/04/99
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Board Approves Addendum I to the Horseshoe Crab FMP
Alexandria, Virginia – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Horseshoe Crab Management Board today approved Addendum I to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Horseshoe Crab, which implements harvest reduction measures along the Atlantic coast for the commercial horseshoe crab bait fishery. Specifically, the Addendum establishes a state-by-state cap at 25 percent below 1995-1997 levels of 2,999,491 horseshoe crabs for all states. Individual state horseshoe crab fisheries would be closed once its cap is reached.
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