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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Kochi: Kerala Paramparagatha Matsya Thozhilali Samithi has alleged that fishermen from Thiruvananthapuram and Tamil Nadu are ...

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

Dragging nets along the ocean floor is like ‘clearcutting an old-growth forest,’ Pacific Wild says. An industry group ...