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seafood industry labor shortage
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crabby patties
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Date: June 20, 2018 08:43PM
https://wtop.com/maryland/2018/06/md-moves-to-help-seafood-industry-in-face-of-labor-shortage/
"WASHINGTON — Maryland’s Board of Public Works has approved putting $375,000 toward a marketing campaign to help the state’s seafood industry, which has been hit by a labor shortage.
The vote on Wednesday is intended to help the crab industry after a change in the federal HB2 visa program left a number of Eastern Shore crab houses without the seasonal foreign crab-processing labor they’ve depended on for years.
The money approved by the BPW will go to a Maryland Department of Agriculture program that markets seafood sales.
Jay Newcomb, owner of Old Salty’s Restaurant, in Fishing Creek on Hooper’s Island, said he’s been unable to open the doors of his processing plant. “We’ve been closed the entire season, and here it is now almost Fourth of July week and we haven’t processed a pound of crabmeat.”
Newcomb said the state has been helpful in promoting Maryland crabmeat, even before Wednesday’s action by the Board of Public Works, and he appreciates the $375,000 investment in promoting the state’s seafood industry, ”But as it is now, we don’t have the Maryland crabmeat to sell to customers.” Newcomb says his restaurant features crab cakes and seafood dishes stuffed with crabmeat, but he can’t offer those specialties.
He’s also spent $10,000 on the plastic tubs and cups in which customers buy their crabmeat. “That’s a $10,000 investment that I’ve got sitting there in storage that I probably won’t use this summer. I’ve got nothing to put in those cups.”
Newcomb said the situation is frustrating. “All we want to do is work, and promote our county and our state.”
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said in a statement, “We remain hopeful that this issue will be resolved at the federal level, but in the meantime, we are doing all we can at the state level to support this iconic industry.”
Hogan and U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, a Republican from Maryland, have been working to get the federal government to issue more visas."
Really? "we haven’t processed a pound of crabmeat". How about YOU do it dickhead? It's your fucking processing plant, yet you cannot bring yourself to process any crab without immigrant labor?
"WASHINGTON — Maryland’s Board of Public Works has approved putting $375,000 toward a marketing campaign to help the state’s seafood industry, which has been hit by a labor shortage.
The vote on Wednesday is intended to help the crab industry after a change in the federal HB2 visa program left a number of Eastern Shore crab houses without the seasonal foreign crab-processing labor they’ve depended on for years.
The money approved by the BPW will go to a Maryland Department of Agriculture program that markets seafood sales.
Jay Newcomb, owner of Old Salty’s Restaurant, in Fishing Creek on Hooper’s Island, said he’s been unable to open the doors of his processing plant. “We’ve been closed the entire season, and here it is now almost Fourth of July week and we haven’t processed a pound of crabmeat.”
Newcomb said the state has been helpful in promoting Maryland crabmeat, even before Wednesday’s action by the Board of Public Works, and he appreciates the $375,000 investment in promoting the state’s seafood industry, ”But as it is now, we don’t have the Maryland crabmeat to sell to customers.” Newcomb says his restaurant features crab cakes and seafood dishes stuffed with crabmeat, but he can’t offer those specialties.
He’s also spent $10,000 on the plastic tubs and cups in which customers buy their crabmeat. “That’s a $10,000 investment that I’ve got sitting there in storage that I probably won’t use this summer. I’ve got nothing to put in those cups.”
Newcomb said the situation is frustrating. “All we want to do is work, and promote our county and our state.”
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said in a statement, “We remain hopeful that this issue will be resolved at the federal level, but in the meantime, we are doing all we can at the state level to support this iconic industry.”
Hogan and U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, a Republican from Maryland, have been working to get the federal government to issue more visas."
Really? "we haven’t processed a pound of crabmeat". How about YOU do it dickhead? It's your fucking processing plant, yet you cannot bring yourself to process any crab without immigrant labor?
Re: seafood industry labor shortage
Posted by:
Art Treacher
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Date: June 20, 2018 09:51PM
What to do, where to go?
Re: seafood industry labor shortage
Posted by:
Part of reason
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Date: June 20, 2018 11:36PM
The fishing industry in the Chesapeake region has been substantially curtailed in the last decade to preserve the environment and fishing stocks. Once the jobs dried up, fishermen looked elsewhere to work.
Re: seafood industry labor shortage
Posted by:
Mr.Krabs
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Date: June 21, 2018 06:49AM
No need for concern here. Trump and Miller will train the detained children of immigrants to crab the Chesapeake. Problem solved.
It's fucking ironic as shit that all the Trumptarded Marylanders are bitching about not having enough immigrant labor to fish the bay or work in the processing plants and at the same time supporting his anti immigration policies. You Trumpers are really fucking stupid are you?
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It's fucking ironic as shit that all the Trumptarded Marylanders are bitching about not having enough immigrant labor to fish the bay or work in the processing plants and at the same time supporting his anti immigration policies. You Trumpers are really fucking stupid are you?
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Re: seafood industry labor shortage
Posted by:
Why Not
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Date: June 21, 2018 04:45PM
Employ some of the Maryland opiate addicted junkies from Calvert County to work the plants. They are as desperate as illegals and will work for pills and fentanyl.