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Today represents a great victory for horseshoe crabs.
The Secretary's decision to establish a preserve in federal waters for the protection of horseshoe crabs is the right thing to do. We are very pleased that this preserve will become a reality in October. Equally important, we look forward to the Secretary's closure of Virginia's horseshoe crab fishery by October 1st. Virginia has been strip mining horseshoe crabs. They are unfairly undermining the conservation efforts of all the other Atlantic states.