Biomedical Industries

Private companies

Bleeding horseshoe crabs to produce Limulus lysate for testing the purity of any injectable solutions (in humans). The industry is interested in maintaining sufficient populations to allow bleeding

Fisheries and Aquaculture

Private Industry

Interested in maintaining healthy fisheries for harvesting, including the use of horseshoe crabs for bait for conch and eel (both commercial and recreational). Commercial production of oysters

Other local industries

Private industries, including hotels, motels, restaurants, fishing and bait stores, nature and bird-watching stores and others.

Interested in maintaining their businesses, and in heaving a healthy Delaware Bay ecosystem, increasing shorebird populations, and sufficient horseshoe crab populations to draw tourists

Horseshoe crab and shorebird study

Virginia Technical Institute Funded by US Congressional mandate

Conduct research on horseshoe crabs and shorebirds

Scientists

Several Universities, including Rutgers University?the State University of New Jersey, Stockton State College, Royal Ontario Museum (Canada),

Conduct research on horseshoe crabs, shorebirds, fish and wildlife, and the ecosystem of Delaware Bay

The Public

Private interests

Includes a number of conservationists, bird-watchers, and others interested in the Delaware Bay ecosystem, and in horseshoe crabs as a keystone species