Horseshoe Crabs.
 

Anyone here ever seen a place where you can buy live Horseshoe Crabs legally?
Thanks, L.

Arn't they a protected species?
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i know they're collected, bleed, and released down in delmarva. and i thought there was still a comm fishery for them down there

They are fished for both bait and blood all up and down the coast. You might try commercial bait dealers.

You can them frozen from Galilean seafood in Bristol. In RI you can catch them but there are a few small hoops you have to jump through and you can't touch them 48hrs before or after a full/new moon.

I have seen them catch truckloads of them on Chappy, pickups piled so high they are falling off in the street! ...they are used for conch trap bait. I think to get a lic you need to have a lic...chicken and egg thing. I doubt they are handing out more of them.

When I was a kid I would pick up one or two of them for my eel pot, they are great eel bait.

just Like medical Marijuana

they have their special purpose
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It's ironic they help save lives, because I've surely lost a few years off mine from when try to get it on with my wading boot, in the middle of the night.

They bump into me in thé dark when i fish thé ponds .... Freaks me out :) Kinda
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They seem to like makin it with wader boots.

Red's best on the Boston fish pier has them
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I'll never forget the day.....
out in the Aucoot Marsh Duck hunting
I'm in my first pair of brand new waders

With no ducks present we might as well shoot something
ANYTHING ....just for practice..... ok
this Guy Charlie grabs a DEAD horseshoe crab
and flies it like a frisbee to simulate a clay skeet (shoot...)

well ,the tail breaks off mid flight and sticks right
into my leg of the waders... too close to my nuts
i was really pissed!

and they all thought it was the funniest thing >>>EVER!

That is pretty funny, if they were old waders never would have played out that way :rotf2:

That is funny...

An old college fisheries professor, Joe DeAlteiri, used to raise them in the Chesapeake to sell to a biotech firm I believe. I think what makes there blood so different is that the cells use copper instead of iron to bind the 02, hence the green blood. Maybe they came from the planet Vulcan.

Well since you brought up the subject of GREEN BLOOD

i want to show you a side by side comparison
of Chlorophyll and Human Blood
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...comparison.jpg

there is only one mineral that's different ---other than that the
formulas of the components are identical

blood has magnesium (or Iron if its hemoglobin) "a very important mineral in our diet"
and chlorophyll has manganese

so it takes only eating/drinking green plants and one other element
to have all the components for making brand new blood cells,,,,

this is why i am an Avid vegetable grower

Very interesting Raven

so wait, you can smoke horsehoe crabs?

i dont think they are a big seller so im not sure they are carried in the USA atleast

FWIW, I just read this morning that the feds have banned the importation of Asian horseshoe crabs.