Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the Legislative Building in droves over the past week as the ban appeared and then quickly passed the state Senate with ...

Ministers announced the proposed ban after David Attenborough’s film Ocean revealed the extent of the damage to the ocean ...

N.C. State Sen. Bobby Hanig gets a hug during a protest of House Bill 442 at the Legislature Building Tuesday, June 24, 2025. House Bill 442 bans commercial shrimp trawling in inshore waters, ...

Glenn Skinner, a commercial fisherman and the executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, explained shrimp trawling, a method of harvesting shrimp.

Glenn Skinner, a commercial fisherman and the executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, explained shrimp trawling, a method of harvesting shrimp. What is shrimp trawling?

The bill, now dropped, would have seen trawling banned from NC's inland and near-ocean waters. Shrimpers say it would have devastated their industry.

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Following the surprise introduction of legislation that would ban shrimp trawling in nearly all of North Carolina’s coastal waters, a host of groups and individuals have ...

A proposed shrimp trawling ban in sounds and inshore waters draws protesters from Eastern North Carolina for a rally at the General Assembly in Raleigh Tuesday.

House Bill 442, which the Senate approved in a vote last week, would ban shrimp trawling inshore and within a half-mile of the shoreline in North Carolina.

Glenn Skinner, a commercial fisherman and the executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, explained shrimp trawling, a method of harvesting shrimp.