
Coastal biomedical labs are bleeding more horseshoe crabs with little accountability
As the horseshoe crab bleeding industry has expanded, coast-wide regulation has been limited and the companies have become increasingly secretive. Records I obtained indicate that in some states, fishermen paid by the bleeding companies have handled crabs in ways that research has shown to cause harm or have violated harvest laws without punishment. Meanwhile, the process of approving the alternative in the U.S. has stalled even as the number of birds in the sky has plummeted.