Effects of blood extraction on horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus)

• Main Authors: Walls, Elizabeth A., Berkson, James M.
• Other Authors: Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Marine Fisheries Service Scientific Publication Office 2003
• Subjects: fisheries; Arctic; Mikkelsen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/48009; http://fishbull.noaa.gov/1012/22wallsf.pdf

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). Mig...