A trawling ban amendment was approved Tuesday with little notice. Its passage will require at least one more Senate vote and ...

Trawlers wouldn’t be allowed to net shrimp in North Carolina’s inland waters or within a half-mile of the coast under a ...

Fishing communities continue to hold their breath and feel that if this bill passes, it will be devastating to their ...

By Catherine Kozak for the Outer Banks commercial shrimpers will be waiting until next week to learn the fate of a bill in ...

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

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The North Carolina Senate has passed a ban on inshore shrimp trawling, drawing outrage from the local commercial seafood ...

On Monday, June 23, the North Carolina Senate advanced a bill that provides temporary compensation for commercial fishermen ...

H.B. 442, amended last week by the State Senate would ban shrimp trawling within a half-mile of the coast and inland waters, ...

As tempers flare over a proposed ban on shrimp trawling in the state’s inland and nearby offshore waters -- a Senate move ...

“The trawl ban has been defeated,” the North Carolina Fisheries Association announced in an email to supporters, shortly after Republican lawmakers emerged from a caucus meeting around 3 p.m.