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The Surf Fisherman Forum => From The Surf => Topic started by: gagedylan on March 14, 2008, 08:12:28 AM
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just curious, havent been to the beach........are the horseshoe crabs out yet?
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No, not in the Raritan Bay/ Sandy Hk area a tad early :-*
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seen a show on them , that they use them for bait and they are trying to stop it ??? ???
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seen a show on them , that they use them for bait and they are trying to stop it ??? ???
Yikes. How would you use one for bait?
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If I am not mistaken there has been a moratorium put on taking Horseshoe Crabs.
"On May 15, 2006, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s 2-year moratorium on the harvest of horseshoe crabs in New Jersey went into effect. The efforts by Delaware and New Jersey were designed to address the immediate threat to red knot and other shorebird populations by allowing the horseshoe crab populations to recover."
Plus here is an article from the APP,
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080229/NEWS0301/802290358/1278/LOCAL02
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Am I reading the enviros correctly? The red knot bird is eating up all the eggs thus deminishing the number of horseshoe crabs. The enviros think this is correct? Let the birds destroy the crab population, along with a fishery, but heaven forbid if the humans do anything...let the enviros feed the silly birds their (enviros) freakin eggs. TT^
(the above was typed with tongue in cheek)
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bngh bngh bngh grtn
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save the red nots.... not
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just curious, havent been to the beach........are the horseshoe crabs out yet?
Just curious why you are looking for the horseshoes?
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The only thing they are good for fishing wise are bait for eels and conch. Other than that I believe the pharmaceutical field for some experimental drugs.
Not on my target for bait... 5hrug
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no, not bait at all. every year i take my son down to the beach when they are abundant, and i show him how harmless they really are, and this year i am taking about six other kids
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Nice! Doing things with my kid are the greatest memories I have. Have a blast!
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whs
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when i was like 8 or 9 my family took me to Sea World. the instructor took a horshoe crab out of the tank, and put her hand right on the creepy-crawly lgs!. then she held it by the tail and showed us how to use it as a backscratcher!. ever since, when i go to the beach and they are out, i pick them up carefully, and do kind of the same thing, and all the kids that are around are amazed, and i think they all learn a little something. it's fun. one year i went "clamming", so to speak. we walked around the shallows of union beach with tube socks on. when you feel something hard, you reach down, and 90% of the time it's a clam. funny, the other ten percent it's a horshoe. funny, when i picked one of those up the guys i was with would be scared senseless. fun to watch a grown man run in waist deep water rofla
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