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In this unusual alert to species depletion, Sargent's heartfelt concerns for the horseshoe crab illustrate the human side of scientific inquiry. So a plan was devised by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), a regional agency with federal powers, which mandated a modest 25 percent cut in horseshoe crab fishing. These shifty images behave like good psychological tests should: now resembling hieroglyphics, now death's-head moths, diminutive horseshoe crabs, fossils, or the alphabet of a race of beetle-beings from Pluto. |
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