Assertion: horseshoe crab | /r/HasProperty | captured
Facets:
value: compared to 130,000 in 1989
type: OTHER
value: each year
type: TEMPORAL
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: accidentally
type: MANNER
value: by fishing nets
type: OTHER
value: from the wild
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The product, called Limulus amebocyte lysate, or LAL, is made from the blood of horseshoe crabs, which are captured from the wild, then returned to the ocean after their blood is drawn.
text: Due to their declining numbers, quotas are being put into place in the U.S. to limit the amount of horseshoe crabs that can be caught.
text: Horseshoe crabs are also caught accidentally (as bycatch) by fishing nets designed to catch other species.
text: Crash: A Tale of Two Species, half a million horseshoe crabs are captured each year, bled of nearly a third of their blood in a laboratory, and then returned to the sea
text: This adaptation has never been able to be duplicated and consequently horseshoe crabs are often captured to have their blood drained and then released, all in the name of science.
text: Such vital benefits are nonetheless dependent on a crude LAL test manufacturing process; whereby the horseshoe crabs are captured, bled, and the collected blood is centrifuged to concentrate the amebocytes.
text: To manufacture LAL, horseshoe crabs are caught, bled and then released alive but approximately ten to fifteen percent do not survive the procedure.
text: The United States FDA estimates that 260,000 horseshoe crabs were caught and bled in 1997, as compared to 130,000 in 1989.