WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - One House bill has fueled some controversy after passing in the Senate. House Bill 442, intended to open the red fish and flounder fishing seasons again, has now also put ...

The newly formed NC Coastal Counties Fisheries Coalition has announced that its next meeting will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. at the Crystal Coast Civic Center in Morehead City ...

A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina’s sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives. Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the ...

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 ...

Shrimpers in the US state of North Carolina are not sitting back quietly as a bill that would ban commercial shrimp trawling in inshore waters and within a half-mile of the Atlantic Ocean shoreline ...

RALEIGH — A bill that would ban shrimp trawling along North Carolina’s coast passed the Senate Thursday with bipartisan support. Meanwhile lawmakers have also introduced a provision to help ease the ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. North Carolina House Republicans won’t take up a bill that would ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina sounds, they said Wednesday — ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) - From truck convoys circling the legislative building to fresh shrimp being hauled in from the coast, shrimpers and fishing industry advocates from across the state gathered to ...

Hundreds of supporters of North Carolina’s shrimp industry, many from coastal counties, descended on the state legislature to protest a proposed ban on shrimp trawling in the state’s inland waters.

A dive team discovered the wreck of the steam trawler Seiner, which sank in 1929 with 21 crew members. Shipwreck hunter Joe Mazraani, who co-led the expedition, died just two days after identifying ...

A U.S. district court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by conservation NGO Oceana challenging bottom trawling in the ...