From yesterday's Atlantic City paper:
        TRENTON - The state Assembly voted 70-6 Thursday evening for a
moratorium on the harvesting of horseshoe crabs until the red knot
shorebirds have replenished their population, the Office of Legislative
Services said.
        The bill, sponsored by Assemblymen John McKeon, D-Essex, Reed Gusciora,
D-Mercer, and Douglas Fisher, D-Cumberland, Salem, Gloucester, calls for
a $10,000 fine for the first offense and $25,000 for subsequent offenses
of possession or harvesting of horseshoe crabs. The moratorium will stay
in place until the red knot population increases to 240,000.
        The Senate Environmental Committee passed a separate bill Monday.
Bill Whan
Columbus

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