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BOSTON — A new bipartisan proposal calls for lifting a statewide ban on removing abandoned fishing lines to help protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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Conservationists say the practice of catching the crabs, bleeding them for the unique chemical that detects toxic contamination, and then returning them to sea results in far too many of them dying.
BOSTON — They’re prized by the biomedical community for their life-saving blue blood, but the increasing demand for horseshoe crabs is raising concerns about the well-being of the prehistoric species,