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

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, ...

N.C. State Sen. Bobby Hanig gets a hug during a protest of House Bill 442 at the Legislature Building Tuesday, June 24, 2025.

“The trawl ban has been defeated,” the North Carolina Fisheries Association announced in an email to supporters, shortly ...

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, ...