I am by no means an expert on this issue, but thought I would share some
references that should be useful regarding horseshoe crabs and shorebirds.
A colleague, Jim Berkson, is a professor at Virginia Tech working on
horseshoe crabs. The group has established a website here:
http://www.nmfs.vt.edu/hcrchomepage.htm
There are a number of good articles, especially a review paper that
includes discussion of the horseshoe crab fishery and effects on shorebirds:
http://www.nmfs.vt.edu/Jim%20Berkson/Research/Publications/walls&berkson.pdf
I also ran across a website dedicated to the species, with a conservation
bent (for the 'crabs'):
http://horseshoecrab.org/
Dave Hewitt
Gloucester, VA
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