From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Following the surprise introduction of legislation that would ban shrimp trawling in nearly all of ...

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

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 ...

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

N.C. State Sen. Bobby Hanig gets a hug during a protest of House Bill 442 at the Legislature Building Tuesday, June 24, 2025.

Lawmakers decided yesterday [Wednesday] -not- to pass a ban on shrimp trawling in North Carolina's inshore waters. Commercial ...

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

The House won't take up the proposal, which also would have opened up recreation flounder and red snapper fishing seasons.

The ban aims to protect fish during the breeding season and prevent overfishing. The Kerala government has imposed a 52-day trawling ban from June 9 to July 31, 2025, to promote marine conservation.