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 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]