The North Carolina Senate met on Tuesday (June 24) for a final reading on House Bill 441, which would pay shrimpers impacted by a proposed trawling ban ...

Chef Alex Rodriguez at 1587 Restaurant tosses a handful of shrimp into a skillet with flair and flame, preparing a gumbo that ...

The North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services has sent a letter to state lawmakers opposing the potential ...

“30 and 40 heads working for them at all 3 fish houses, you’re putting all them people out of business. They’ve got 100 ...

North Carolina lawmakers are advancing a bill that would kill the state's shrimping industry. On Thursday, the state Senate ...

A bill in the North Carolina General Assembly, originally meant to restore flounder and red snapper seasons, could now target ...

By Catherine Kozak for the Outer Banks commercial shrimpers will be waiting until next week to learn the fate of a bill in ...

The North Carolina Senate voted 41 to 4 Wednesday in favor of bill 442 that would ban shrimp trawling in inshore waters.

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 ...

An email sent by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission to 1.5 million license holders supporting House Bill 442 that stops all shrimp trawling in the state’s sounds and near shore ...

If HB422 in the N.C. Legislature passes on Tuesday, the Ocracoke fish house will no longer have locally harvested shrimp. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer By Morty Gaskill As many of the ...

Trawling would leave "little buffer between the trawl nets and the high relief coral mounds," he said. Weights on the bottom of a general shrimp trawl net, which are meant to stay open to entrap ...