Conservation Commission focuses on horseshoe crab biology and conservation
Conservation Commission · Meeting of May 7, 2026
CT GREENWICH — Greenwich Conservation Commission heard a presentation on horseshoe crab conservation and biology research. Jo-Marie Kasinak, Assistant Teaching Professor of Biology at Sacred Heart University, detailed Project Limulus, a 28-year mark-and-recapture study tracking Atlantic horseshoe crab populations considered a species of concern in Connecticut and New York. Kasinak explained that female horseshoe crabs lay approximately 100,000 eggs with only an estimated one surviving to adulthood, and that their eggs provide critical food for migrating Red Knots while their blue blood serves essential medical safety testing purposes.
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Source: the Conservation Commission meeting of May 7, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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