The headline left out something important from the article and posed a false dichotomy, a minority of harvested crabs are being used to develop medicines, and most of those are released and survive. The vast majority that are killed are being harvested for use as bait in commercial fishing. Seems like that’s the obvious thing to cut back on to save the humans, the crabs, and the birds.
Obviously, that’s the one that’s off the table. The choice is strictly between developing medicine or saving a species.
And I think we all know the birds are the ones who will have to go.
- Capitalism
Horseshoe crabs not blue crabs
Horseshoe “blood” is blue, and it’s not actually blood it’s hemolymph. It is blue crab blood. Blue blood from a crab.
Blue blood from a horseshoe crab yes. Blue crabs are also a thing and horseshoe crabs are always referred to with the word horseshoe in front. So calling them just crabs with the word blue in front is a poor choice if one cares about communication.
horseshoe crabs are always referred to with the word horseshoe in front
They weren’t in this case, so that “always” seems to be a stretch.
if one cares about communication.
It’s made clear in the article. If one cares about communication they’re reading past a headline.
