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the pandemic has made an already bad situation much worse. we are closed. they are calling for crabmeat and we don t have any. it is new and uncomfortable for dot, as uncomfortable as wearing a mask in the crisp air of the chesapeake bay. across the creek, there s also great on ease. this is the land of plentiful fishing, oysters, where 50% of the nation supply of blue crabs are harvested. it has slowed everything down. our sales aren t what they were before. due to the restaurants being closed and everybody is just worried about getting the disease. worse, chesapeake bay waterman, covid-19 has added insult to a deeper injury. they can t find enough workers. it s pretty much got to be handpicked to keep the shell o out. very tedious, very skillful work. these are jobs the local people unfortunately just won t
take anymore. migrant laborers will do this work but that visa system in place long before the trump administration cap seasonal workers to 66,000 nationwide, and the trump administration is resisting any changes to the cap while the covid pandemic is ongoing. you ll find communities like this all around the bay that are suffering right now because the cap has been met and we are not staffed. we don t open. president trump signed an executive order protecting the american seafood ministry from unfair foreign competition but it did not include lifting the cap on migrant workers. one survey found that the h2b visa lottery system was costing the maryland economy anywhere between 100 to $150 million a year. that survey was conducted in early march before the full effects of the covid-19 virus were understood. bret. bret: doug mckelway, thank you. as if the coronavirus is not
this is probably the worst i ve ever seen. reporter: 100-plus miles of coastline from naples to sarasota ravaged by what s called the red tide. residents and tourists hitting the beaches, suffering, too. this family cutting short their vacation in sarasota. it was horrendous. there were hundreds of dead fish in the water, on the shoreline. it smelled. reporter: the red tide is a naturally occurring event, but mankind is making it worse. runoff from large farms and businesses feed the algae in central florida s lake okeechobee. because of fears of dam breaks, the federal government is forced to send that algae-clogged water down rivers towards the coast, where this green slime dies in the salt water, which feeds the red tide bloom. all this leaving air in places to dangerous to breathe, and if you re swimming in an infested beach, it s harmful if ingested. experts say this year s red tide could be the worst in decades. the problem is the source of nutrients, and we humans are th
waters stay warm. it could mean us losing all the stuff we have and having to sell off our boats. we ve never had a situation where the crab season was being threatened. we go through 400,000 pounds of crab a year in our restaurant. i don t now how to replace that. reporter: the predicting torrential rains haven t even arrived, but el nino may already have california in its clawls. mireya villarreal, cbs news, los angeles. glor: up next, in this new job market, what companies are doing to keep workers from leaving.