Amid growing demand for temporary guest workers nationwide, only one of Maryland’s 21 seafood processing plants was able to get visas to bring the foreigners into the country this year. If Congress does not move quickly to make more available, other processors say they won’t open this spring. And the loss of a year’s income, several say, means that they probably would shut their businesses for good.
In April of 2008 H2B workers pick steamed crabs for packing in pound-sized tubs for retail sale at TNT Crab Company, LLC on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. (Baltimore Sun photo by Karl Merton Ferron / April 23, 2008
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