Effects of blood extraction on horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus)

• Main Authors: Walls, Elizabeth A., Berkson, Jim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Biology; Chemistry; Fisheries; Arctic; Mikkelsen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/30992

Horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are caught by commercial fishermen for use as bait in eel and whelk fisheries (Berkson and Shuster, 1999)—fisheries with an annual economic value of $13 to $17 million (Manion et al.1). Horse-shoe crabs are ecologically important, as well (Walls et al., 2002). Mi...