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, ...

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. After galvanizing an industry, sparking death threats for state lawmakers and creating a divide between the House and Senate, a bill ...

(The Center Square) – Shrimpers spoke, and the Republican caucus of the North Carolina House of Representatives listened. Legislation potentially fatal to the coastal industry, its leaders said, will ...

A Senate-passed bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina’s inland waters won’t advance in the House this session, lawmakers confirmed to WRAL on Tuesday afternoon. About 100 shrimpers and others ...

All was still on the New River near the Davis Seafood fish house. But when 83-year-old William "Buddy" Davis walked out of his home and pulled on tall rubber boots, it signaled the work was about to ...

State surveys show stable shrimp populations, but the number of licensed shrimpers continues to drop. Now, warming waters ...

Laken Lewis Wheatly, seated with fishermen in the gallery, covers her face as the North Carolina Senate passes the second reading of HB 442, 40-4 on Wednesday at the N.C. General Assembly. Robert ...

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 ...