New Jersey Seeks to Have Red Knots Listed as Endangered

"In the awkward and contentious dance that wildlife advocates, fishing interests, and regulators are engaged in over the intertwined lives of the horseshoe crab and a tiny shorebird, New Jersey has taken the latest step.
It has proposed to change the status of the bird, the red knot, from threatened to endangered.  As a practical matter, this accomplishes little, adding no new protection measures.  But state officials and others say it is nevertheless important as a formal recognition that despite years of efforts to help the bird, which stops at Delaware Bay every May to refuel, its numbers continue to decline."

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http://articles.philly.com/2011-03-07/news/28664843_1_red-knots-horseshoe-crab-tiny-shorebird