this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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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.
Also, it looks more like climate change is what's fucking over the spawning of horseshoe crabs. Not blood harvesting. Eggs need a specific temperature to survive.