Suffolk Times: Fishermen take note: The New York Department of Environmental Conservation announced the closure of the horseshoe crab fishery Saturday after the annual quota for the crustacean was exceeded. “The quota was exceeded by about 20,000...

Stamford Advocate: Long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, hard-shelled, spear-tailed sea creatures crept along the ocean floors. Four hundred million years later, their form and lifestyle is virtually unchanged. Today, a Fairfield researcher has studied these primordial beings for...

Minuteman News Center recently ran an article about the biology of the horseshoe crab and its contributions to science and medicine. Here’s an excerpt: Those ugly, scary-looking creatures found along the shoreline of our beaches, are actually helping to...

The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries has released its calendar of horseshoe crab harvest closures. The closures are designed to protect spawning horseshoe crabs, which are harvested for eel- and conch-trap bait and biomedical purposes. Horseshoe crab harvesting is...