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 |