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

Trawlers wouldn’t be allowed to net shrimp in North Carolina’s inland waters or within a half-mile of the coast under a proposal in the North Carolina Senate that has divided Republicans. Critics say ...

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

A trawling ban amendment came up for consideration with little notice, then was approved in the Senate on Thursday. Its ...

N.C. Catch, N.C. Watermen United, Carteret County Fisherman's Association, Ocracoke Seafood Co. and Carteret Catch are ...

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

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

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

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

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

A fishing cutter, photographed through the net of another boat, trawls for shrimp at Germany's North Sea coastline near the Jade river on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. A ban on inshore shrimp trawling is ...