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We really do have a crab line tonight!

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Oh, this is so exciting!

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Three females and twelve males.

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Okay!

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Twelve and three.

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Here in the Delaware Bay, in both Delaware
and New Jersey, we complete spawning surveys

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every year from May and into June.

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It’s so important for us to do these surveys
because we want to know how many horseshoe

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crabs we have so that we can properly manage
them for the biomedicine, the eggs for the

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migratory birds, as well as watermen who collect
them.

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We go out during the full moon and the new
moon, when you have your highest high tides.

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We come out with volunteers, and we take measurements
every ten meters down the beach, and we count

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in a one meter by one meter quadrat how many
male horseshoe crabs and how many female horseshoe

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crabs we have.

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Four females.

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Okay.

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And eleven males.

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Okay.

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That data is collected from Cape Henlopen
in southern Delaware all the way up to Woodland

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Beach, and then across the New Jersey side
as well.

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Zero, zero.

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Zeroes are data, right?

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All that data is put together, and it’s
used to figure out what our spawning population

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of horseshoe crabs is in the Delaware Bay.