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Crab season is a Marylander s favorite time of the year, but finding help to get crabs from the ocean to tables each year has left many business owners in a pinch.
Every year on the Eastern Shore, Marylanders get ready for the state s epic crab season. But there’s one issue centering around immigration, which business owners said could threaten the very existence of the industry.
At land s edge in Dorchester County, where ocean tide and Hooper s Island meet, there s the sounds and aroma of a Maryland delicacy. Crab pickers need only a few seconds and a knife to fish out jumbo lump crabmeat.
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