Oyster Season Looking Grim for Maryland’s Eastern Shore Watermen
As Maryland’s oyster season begins – a lot of watermen here on the eastern shore say they fear this year won’t be as profitable as years before. …
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Wants More Visas for Foreign Workers to Help Crab Picking Industry
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday urged federal officials to allow more H-2B visas for foreign workers to help the state’s $ 355 million seafood industry and seasonal employers. …
Maryland Imposes Oyster Harvest Limits, But Drops Plan To Shorten Season
Maryland officials placed new restrictions Monday on harvesting wild oysters this fall and winter but dropped a plan to shorten the season that had drawn fire from watermen and seafood dealers. …
Shoppers Food was sold. What will happen to its stores in Maryland and Virginia?
Nine months after one of the Washington region’s major grocery chains was purchased by a Rhode Island-based company, local officials, residents and employees are demanding answers about the fate of more than 40 supermarkets the chain operates in the area. …
Maryland Will Test to Determine if Eastern Shore Chicken Farms are Polluting the Air
A year after fighting off a proposal to monitor air pollution levels around industrial-scale chicken houses on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the poultry industry has joined with state environmental regulators to study whether the farms are polluting the air. …