Pharma lab seems to contradict itself, science in fight to bleed SC horseshoe crabs
Chiara Eisner, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
May 19—A judge banned horseshoe crab harvesting on Cape Romain, then Charles River appealed. Here's what the lab is arguing in court, sometimes seemingly at odds with science and experts.
A federal judge has prohibited the harvest of horseshoe crabs in the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge near Charleston. The new order was expected to restrict the operations of a Massachusetts-based biomedical company, Charles River Laboratories, that for almost 30 years has purchased tens of thousands of the animals from fishermen who collect them on the refuge and other spots along the S.C. coast.