Crab industry labor shortage upsets supply chain

The crab industry failed to win visas for its seasonal non-American employees (which are awarded by lottery under the Trump administration), which means the industry just lost 40% of its workforce, The Baltimore Sun reported.
The labor shortage is wreaking havoc on the crab industry, which must now deal with a substantial shortage of employees to fish for crabs. Some crab houses fear they won't have enough crab meat to meet demand.
To further complicate the issue, crab houses say much of the American workforce shuns manual labor, even if it is seasonal, making the labor crunch even tighter going into crab season.