Dare County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bob Woodard sent a June 30 letter to state Senator Berger expressing “deep ...

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

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An amendment that would have had a significant impact on the seafood industry in ...

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 ...

Hundreds of people associated with the fishing industry, filled the halls of the North Carolina General Assembly, on Tuesday, ...

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

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

“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.

Two bills passed by the North Carolina Senate addressing a shrimp trawling ban in the state’s inland waters will not advance ...

The ban would have pushed North Carolina shrimp trawling off-shore. Critics said the proposal would have destroyed the ...

North Carolina House Republicans won’t take up a bill that would ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina sounds, they said Wednesday — a decision met with jubilation from shrimpers in the Legislative ...