In a sweeping three-year study mandated by the North Carolina General Assembly, the North Carolina Collaboratory has released ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eastern North Carolina shrimpers are celebrating a significant victory after House Bill 442 was officially killed in the ...

“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.

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

North Carolina’s commercial fishermen can breathe a momentary sigh of relief with Wednesday’s decision by the state House to delay any decision on a proposed ban on all shrimp trawling ...