[Bhoy]

This is a wonderful example of do-gooders in action. Thanks for that bit. Is there anything published anywhere? Should be.

[M-cubed]

Not a thing was left of the study or any mention of it anywhere....(web site and all links disappeared instantly)..it was covered up big time......I called the State a few weeks later and was told there was never a study...However..I still have a report on it i copied from the site before it disappeared..

You'll love this quote....”From the animals tagged in 2001, 9% returned in 2002. Many fewer horseshoe crabs were seen in 2002, but whether this represents a sharp decline in the population, or a normal fluctuation for a natural population of the species, is unknown at this time. Each additional season of data improves our understanding”

Needless to say...the "study" was stopped and disappeared down the memory hole in 2002 when the dead crabs were reported attached to the seaweed by the locals that actually work the flats and waters of Taunton Bay....... according to the report, it was funded by the Maine Coastal Program, Maine Sea Grant, and Sweet Water Trust.