I enthusiastically agree that we should spend some time doing this.  
The male Horseshoe Crabs in Delaware will be harvested at some point  
beginning in June after most of the birds have moved on. It seems that  
it would be especially useful to get the females back in the water.

Cortez
Upper Marlboro, MD.
On May 29, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Bob Mumford wrote:

> Like Harry Armistead and others, I was over at Slaughter Beach, DE, on
> Wednesday and noted the large numbers of stranded horseshoe crabs.
>
> I got to thinking: we birders have been understandably very upset  
> with the
> over-harvest of horseshoe crabs and the effect of that take on egg
> production  and thus the survival of Red Knots.  Yet few people make  
> any effort at
> all  to rescue overturned crabs to allow them to get back into the  
> water or
> transport  crabs stranded in parking lots and other unsuitable  
> locations.
>
> Chris and I overturned about 50 crabs in ten minutes or so on  
> Slaughter
> Beach, but of the 25 or so birders I saw during the day, no one else  
> did
> anything that I witnessed.
>
> I have heard the argument that crabs have evolved over a million  
> years or
> so and so have survived despite the losses due to overturning in the  
> surf or
> being stranded by extra high tides far from the water's edge.  But
> evolution occurred before there were roads, parking lots, rip rap,  
> piers,
> breakwaters and all the other accouterments of civilization.
>
> I wonder what the effect would be if every birder visiting the  
> shores of
> Delaware Beach turned over or rescued just 25 crabs a day?  Helpful?
> Significant?  Enough to offset the losses to crabbers?
>
> Bob Mumford
> Darnestown
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