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 ...

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 ...

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

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Board of Beaufort County Commissioners passed a resolution on Monday opposing an amendment to House Bill 442 that prohibits shrimp trawling within ...

Banning shrimp trawling in inland waters will improve North Carolina’s fishery, but commercial fishermen who lose business should be compensated.

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

: House Bill 441 passed its second reading in a 45-2 vote in the NC Senate. It will have a third reading tomorrow morning, according to the NC Senate web ...