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Raritan Bay-Sandy Hook Bay Horseshoe Crab Monitoring Sites 2009

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The status of the Raritan Bay – Sandy Hook Bay Horseshoe Crab population is largely unknown but may be declining. Because the adult breeding population has been harvested in the past and coastal development continues, a management plan needs to be enacted. A dependable management plan, however, is based on science and population data, and long-term population data is nonexistent for the Horseshoe Crabs residing in Raritan Bay-Sandy Hook Bay. Also, once a management plan is in place, a monitoring program must be continued to learn if conservation measures are helping the population to remain stable or increase.