WBOC quotes Johnny demanding tariffs on imported crab to protect Shore processors

Venezuelan crab meat started flooding the U.S. market at $11 a pound. Eastern Shore processors — the ones who buy from Dorchester watermen, run picking houses in Hoopers Island and Cambridge, and employ Shore families — were forced to cut their own prices from $48 down to $32 just to compete. That’s not market pressure. That’s a livelihood being undercut in real time.

Johnny didn’t wait for a study or a working group. He called on Governor Moore to press the federal government for tariffs on the imports — to give Eastern Shore watermen and the small businesses that depend on them a level playing field.

This is what protecting the Shore actually looks like: naming the threat by name, naming the dollar figures, and demanding action from the people who can do something about it.