PBS focuses on fragile shorebird at center of N.J. battle
04/Feb/2008 07:03 Filed in: Red Knots
By KIRK MOORE
STAFF WRITER, Asbury Park Press
A court appeal in Trenton scheduled for Tuesday and the Sunday premiere of a PBS "Nature" television special are the latest salvos in the long battle over New Jersey horseshoe crabs and shorebirds — a fight that will come to a head again in seven days.
A day after WNET-TV (Channel 13) airs "Crash: A Tale of Two Species" at 8 p.m. Feb. 10, the state Marine Fisheries Council ‚will convene at Batsto Village to decide whether it should endorse extending the state's two-year moratorium on harvesting horseshoe crabs for fishing bait. Conservation groups are eager to keep the ban — the only one of its kind on the East Coast — which they say is critical to reviving the failing population of western Atlantic red knot shorebirds.
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STAFF WRITER, Asbury Park Press
A court appeal in Trenton scheduled for Tuesday and the Sunday premiere of a PBS "Nature" television special are the latest salvos in the long battle over New Jersey horseshoe crabs and shorebirds — a fight that will come to a head again in seven days.
A day after WNET-TV (Channel 13) airs "Crash: A Tale of Two Species" at 8 p.m. Feb. 10, the state Marine Fisheries Council ‚will convene at Batsto Village to decide whether it should endorse extending the state's two-year moratorium on harvesting horseshoe crabs for fishing bait. Conservation groups are eager to keep the ban — the only one of its kind on the East Coast — which they say is critical to reviving the failing population of western Atlantic red knot shorebirds.
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