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Maryland's crab outlook, like weather, iffy
Independence Day means steamed crabs for many Marylanders, but the outlook for celebrating the nation's birthday with a heaping tableful of locally caught crustaceans is as iffy as the weather of late.
Despite a bumper crop of crabs tallied in the...Tags: Odenton, Restaurants, Parkville, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Jim Andrews
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A better way to ensure the bay's bounty
More crabs to catch and fewer rules by which to catch 'em. That'd be the Holy Grail for Chesapeake watermen. It's why top crabbers in Maryland, from Havre de Grace to Smith Island, have been traveling monthly, for the past 18 months, to long and...
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Md. crab processors battle federal wage rule
Jack Brooks and other leaders of Maryland's seafood industry have faced the same problem for more than a decade: a shortage of seasonal foreign workers to pick out the morsels of crab meat that wind up on dinner plates across the country.
But this...Tags: Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Employees, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation, Immigration
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Steaming and boiling face off in annual crab cook-off
Along most of America's coastline, crustaceans get boiled. Sometimes in plain old Yankee water. Sometimes in spicy Cajun stock. Whatever the liquid, there's a whole pot of it bubbling away. Whatever the seafood — Maine lobster, Carolina blue crab,...Tags: Referenda, Oranges, Lemons, Voting, Onions
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Crabs plentiful for now, though still pricey
Crabs are plentiful so far this year in Maryland, but that doesn't mean there'll be enough to go around on Independence Day weekend, when nearly every patriotic Marylander, it seems, dreams of feasting on the state's official crustacean. Nor will they...Tags: Annapolis, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Elections, Restaurants
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Home beckons for crab pickers
sun reporterFISHING CREEK // Five months after coming to this marshy village on the Chesapeake Bay to take jobs picking crabs in a processing plant, Trinidad Tovar Tovar and a dozen other workers headed home to Mexico yesterday, their luggage bulging with trinkets,...Tags: Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Trinidad and Tobago, Employees, Labor Legislation, Interior Policy
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Crab industry gets back to business
Sun StaffHOOPERS ISLAND - Just a few months ago, Harry Phillips wouldn't have bet a nickel that his crab processing plant would still be in business - much less humming along, turning out mounds of creamy steamed crabmeat. In March, Maryland's Eastern Shore...Tags: Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Employees, Labor Day, Labor Legislation, Barbara A. Mikulski
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A shortage of hands
For nearly 20 years, this tiny watermen's village on Hoopers Island has been enlivened each spring by the arrival of several dozen Mexicans - women who bring with them tortillas and tamales, mariachi music and the hands that make the local economy go....Tags: Finance, Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Employees, Immigration, Barbara A. Mikulski
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Crab factory
Sun ReportersBy 9 a.m. the crab boats have already been coming and going from the pier for close to five hours, with migrant Burmese workers laboring to unload, sort, weigh and steam crabs that are destined for dinner plates on the other side of the world....Tags: Ecosystems, Cheddar Cheese, Employees, Labor Day, Conservation
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Work-visa limit snags Shore employers
Sun StaffFor the first time in more than a decade, many Maryland businesses are warning that there won't be anyone to pick the crabs, shuck the oysters or trim the hedges. Thousands of temporary workers essential to keeping many summer industries humming will not...Tags: Employees, Queen Anne's County, Immigration, Barbara A. Mikulski, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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Crab pickers turn to House for seasonal-worker visas
Sun StaffKENT NARROWS - Buoyed by a victory in the U.S. Senate this week, Maryland's seafood processors turned their attention yesterday to winning House of Representatives approval for a visa program they say is crucial to the survival of the Chesapeake Bay's...Tags: Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Employees, Fraud, Iraq War (2003-2011), Immigration
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Jack Brooks dies at 89; longtime Democratic Texas congressman
Jack Brooks hounded government bureaucrats, drafted articles of impeachment against President Nixon and was a strong supporter of civil rights in a congressional career that spanned four decades. But the Texas politician was perhaps best known for his...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Civil Rights, Elections, Joe Biden
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