Heroic Environmentalists Save, Kill Crabs

Hooray! Jon Corzine has officially banned harvesting horseshoe crabs! And here’s why:

a long-sought goal of environmental activists who say the crab’s eggs are needed to feed dwindling numbers of western Atlantic red knot shorebirds.

Woo-hoo! Environmentalists saved the crabs so they could be killed. The food chain in action! It’s pretty clear we’ve seen a 75 percent decline in red knots,” Corzine said.

Law bans horseshoe crab harvest [Gannett]