It exemplifies the importance of acting locally and decisively. Officials enforce long-running fishing ban for three more ...

The North Carolina Senate approved a bill Thursday that bans commercial shrimp trawling in inshore waters, including sounds. Sen. Bobby Hanig, a Republican who represents multiple coastal counties, ...

The general trawl zone is being closed to commercial shrimp fishing — the state’s most valuable fishery — to protect overwintering stock that cold water is threatening to kill outright or drive to ...

Activists fighting a ban on inshore shrimp trawling brought local shrimp to the North Carolina legislature in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. The North Carolina House will not take up the ...

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 ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Shrimp is one of the most popular types of seafood consumed in the United States. Shrimp trawling uses nets towed slowly near the ...

Shrimpers rallied at the N.C. legislature to protest a proposed trawling ban. Senators cited environmental damage and by-catch as reasons for the restriction. Bipartisan lawmakers and shrimpers ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. The North Carolina Senate approved a bill Thursday that bans commercial shrimp trawling in inshore waters, including sounds. Sen.