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Maryland's crabbing rules aren't satisfactory for the watermen or the regulators, and they're working together on a better management scheme.

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.

Members of Maryland's seafood industry are fighting a U.S. Department of Labor rule that would require businesses to pay higher wages for temporary guest workers who come to the U.S. each summer to pick crabs and shuck oysters.

Peak demand on July Fourth holiday weekend often strains supply