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A lot of cars into our incredible national park. my daughter as a board member o the national park trust and yesterday they had an annual meeting and announced really good news. here is the chairman of the board bill brown now. >> we work with the national park service to acquire critically important either inside or adjacent to national parks. >> the new land, new parklands in wisconsin, minnesota, and ne mexico since 83 the national park trust has preserved 30,000 acres and 31 states and they also started by the bison program to get schoolchildren t visit the parks great america i blessed to...

Plants here to completely go dark for the season. only three are operational right now with enough workers and this causing a chain reaction throughout the entire state of maryland from the restaurants to the grocery stores who rely on this crabbing industry. i spoke with some of the main benefactors and owners in the industry to hear about the impacts it is having on businesses and the community at large. take a listen to what they told me. >> our production is down about a third due to not being able to bring our workers in because of the station and the disease. s it very bad. >> it is a ne...

Stugling to survive the pand. some processing plants have had to close kaudsing a shortage in grocery stores and restaurants who rely on the industry. joining me now is amanda golden, with a welcome. so as i understand it, there is a shortage of crab meat because there is a shortage of workers. people would want to work but it is bigger than that. >> reporter: it is bigger than that, alex. what should be a booming memorial day weekend kickoff for this industry is not the case as the maryland crab industry is not only facing the restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic, but a shortage of worker...

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,...

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...