CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A lawsuit has been filed against the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and pharmaceutical company, Charles River Laboratories, over so-called horseshoe crab pens ...

Horseshoe crab harvesting has been prohibited on nearly 30 beaches in South Carolina this spawning season until further order from a district court in a resolution agreed to by opposing groups with ...

The federal government is shutting down the harvest of a species of marine invertebrate in a national wildlife refuge during the spawning season to try to give the animal a chance to reproduce.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Council (ASMFC) has voted to continue a ban on female horseshoe crab bait harvesting in ...

Known as living fossils, horseshoe crabs have been around for hundreds of millions of years. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection says according to reports, over the last 10, their ...

The past few days, the ocean beach has been a graveyard for horseshoe crab shells. The shells were mostly small, about the size of your hand with your fingers spread. And they looked so life-like that ...

Each year, hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs are rounded up by pharmaceutical companies. They’re drained of their blood and returned to the ocean, after which many die. While the Atlantic ...

Adults "should have the same opportunities their children have" to learn from Long Island Sound, the instructor said.