How does a horseshoe crab fisherman sell the crabs?

So if your live crabs die in extracting the crab blood process, by definition the whole crab needs to be processed separately for different markets. You would extract the meat and sell it to the seafood market , the crab guts and blood to the pharma co in the form they need. read more

Many people have seen horseshoe crabs but do not realize they are looking at one of the oldest animals on the planet. Often called "living fossils," horseshoe crab ancestors can traced back through the geologic record to around 445 million years ago, 200 million years before dinosaurs existed. read more

As a heads up, there is (as of thirty years ago) a beach in Delaware where hundreds of thousands of the prehistoric looking crabs literally cover the beach, so at $15,000 a quart, it might be worth seeing if the blood from the dying horseshoe crabs would be worth harvesting. read more