Horse Shoe Crab Alert 2014 for Smithtown Bay

I am sounding an environmental alarm. This year I have seen so few horseshoe crabs (HSCs)that I am genuinely worried. Where are my little arachnid buddies of the deep? May and June are usually prime months to see the HSCs coming onto the beaches to mate and lay their eggs, but this year so far I think I have seen fewer than five. What gives Mother Nature? This is alarming and I want to know what the experts are saying? Does it have something to do with the harsh winter? Or is nature telling us something about the water? I am not marine biologist but I know what I see, or what I don't see, and there ain't many HSCs this year! What have you observed? The photo was taken last week;

one of the few times I saw my Smithtown Bay friends.