What egg density shows about Delaware Bay horseshoe crabs | NJ Spotlight News Measuring egg density on beaches helps conservationists gauge the health of the Delaware Bay’s population of horseshoe crabs.

One of the things we measure is the density per square meter of eggs. A healthy figure would be 50K horseshoe crab eggs per sq meter, but 7.5K is what we're actually seeing nowadays.

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