What are no.Alantic horseshoe crabs used for?

Question

What are no.Alantic horseshoe crabs used for?

Answer 1

There bleed for their blood which is copper based not iron based like ours,its purified,freeze dried and used in cancer testing and other experiments. Also its used as eel bait.

Answer 2

You make avocado horseshoe crab salad.  Yum yum!!

    * 4 avocados

    * 1 pound crab meat, picked through and diced

    * 1/2 cup pecans

    * 1 cup mayonnaise

    * 2 teaspoons ketchup

    * Dash of Worchestershire sauce

    * Lettuce

    * 1 cup halved grapefruit sections

    * 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped

    * Black olives

Cut the avocados in half and remove the seeds.

Combine the crab meat with pecans, mayonnaise, ketchup, and Worcestershire sauce. Spoon into the avocados.

Serve on a bed of crisp lettuce surrounded by grapefruit sections and garnished with chopped hard-boiled eggs and black olives.

Yield: 4 servings