The bill, now dropped, would have seen trawling banned from NC's inland and near-ocean waters. Shrimpers say it would have ...

Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the Legislative Building in droves over the past week as ...

A trawling ban amendment came up for consideration with little notice, then was approved in the Senate on Thursday. Its ...

Legislation moving through the North Carolina General Assembly could bring a significant change to how the state manages its ...

“30 and 40 heads working for them at all 3 fish houses, you’re putting all them people out of business. They’ve got 100 ...

A controversial bill in the North Carolina General Assembly that would ban shrimp trawling in inshore waters and offshore ...

A House bill aimed at banning inshore shrimp trawling dies, a day after shrimpers, seafood business owners protested against ...

Lawmakers in the North Carolina House of Representatives have effectively killed a ban on inshore shrimp trawling, a proposal ...

Glenn Skinner, a commercial fisherman and the executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, explained ...

Fish stocks, rebounding from the exclusion of foreign fleets, began to crash again. NOAA regulators addressed overfishing ...