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As crab season approaches, Maryland processing plants seek guest worker reform

On Maryland’s eastern shore, crab season is less than two weeks away. Aubrey Vincent, who runs the crab wholesaler Lindy’s Seafood with her dad, is getting ready. Lindy’s sells to markets, restaurants ...
Star Democrat

Project looks at cryogenic freezing for smaller crab processing plants

FISHING CREEK Cryogenic processing on a smaller scale is among the projects resulting from the $15 million Maryland has received in federal blue crab disaster funds during the past two seasons. The ...
The Daily Record (Maryland)

Md.’s crab processing industry, already struggling, faces new threat

Around half of Maryland’s crab processing plants will close permanently if President Donald Trump’s new executive order freezing work visas through 2020 is maintained next year, according to an ...
Star Democrat

Without enough pickers, crab processing may be delayed

FISHING CREEK When crab season opens here April 1, Hooper's Island's nine crab processing plants likely will remain closed for lack of workers to pick the crabs. The story will be the same at ...
The Baltimore Sun

Only one Maryland crab processor won the guest worker ‘lottery,’ and the rest worry about their futures

The crab processing plant owners on Maryland’s secluded Hoopers Island call it “The Lottery.” They aren’t referring to the state-run sweepstakes, but to the U.S. government’s annual method of randomly ...