Worth a mention are a couple highlights from the NJDEP Fish and Wildlife Bureau of Law Enforcement’s monthly report.
Conservation Police Officer Lt. Petruccelli came across two commercial fishermen in possession of live horseshoe crabs. Since there is a moratorium on harvesting horseshoe crabs in New Jersey, “individuals in possession of horseshoe crabs for bait must be able to provide a receipt from a legal source of the crabs.”
The men knee-jerkedly claimed they had purchased the still-moving crabs from a well-known licensed distributor … in…
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