Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After galvanizing an industry, sparking death threats for state lawmakers and creating a divide between the House and Senate, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a courthouse 120 miles up Interstate 40 from the Wilmington coast, the future direction of the state's commercial and ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Coastal fishermen are turning out in full force in Raleigh on Tuesday to oppose a bill that would ban some kinds of shrimp fishing. Large commercial trucks with signs reading ...

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 ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Local lawmakers are looking to protect our shrimp and seafood industry by introducing legislation that would expand federal relief to commercial fishermen. The Protect ...

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 ...

A conservation group is suing the state, claiming it has failed in its responsibility to properly manage and protect N.C.'s fishing resources.

In a courthouse 120 miles up Interstate 40 from the Wilmington coast, the future direction of the state's commercial and recreational fishing industries could soon be decided. A trial is underway in ...