If you've ever gotten a vaccine, including the COVID vaccine, you have a very unlikely creature to thank. The horseshoe crab.
For the last 40 years, the blue blood from the horseshoe crab, a creature which predates the dinosaurs and has survived all of Earth's five mass extinctions, has been used to safely manufacture vaccines, medicines and vitamins.But, the horseshoe crab population is declining in our area and around the world due, in part, to fishermen using them for bait, according to Dr.
In New York, someone can harvest up to five horseshoe crabs everyday without a permit. With a commercial permit, fishermen can harvest 150 horseshoe crabs daily as of April 2022. Many attempts have been made in the New York State Legislature to try to change the horseshoe crab harvesting rules, but none has passed.
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