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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 4% 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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