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

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

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

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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 ...

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

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.