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Catch and Release - The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab (Hardcover)
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Catch and Release - The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab (Hardcover)
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The unexpected and fascinating interspecies relationship between
humans and horseshoe crabs. Horseshoe crabs are considered both a
prehistoric and indicator species. They have not changed in tens of
millions of years and provide useful data to scientists who monitor
the health of the environment. From the pharmaceutical industry to
paleontologists to the fishing industry, the horseshoe crab has
made vast, but largely unknown, contributions to human life and our
shared ecosystem. Catch and Release examines how these
intersections steer the trajectory of both species' lives, and
futures. Based on interviews with conservationists, field
biologists, ecologists, and paleontologists over three years of
fieldwork on urban beaches, noted ethnographer Lisa Jean Moore
shows how humans literally harvest the life out of the horseshoe
crabs. We use them as markers for understanding geologic time,
collect them for agricultural fertilizer, and eat them as
delicacies, capture them as bait, then rescue them for
conservation, and categorize them as endangered. The book details
the biomedical bleeding of crabs; how they are caught, drained of
40% of their blood, and then released back into their habitat. The
model of catch and release is essential. Horseshoe crabs cannot be
bred in captivity and can only survive in their own ecosystems.
Moore shows how horseshoe crabs are used as an exploitable
resource, and are now considered a "vulnerable" species. An
investigation of how humans approach animals that are essential for
their survival, Catch and Release questions whether humans should
have divine, moral, or ethical claims to any living being in their
path.
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