: House Bill 441 passed its second reading in a 45-2 vote in the NC Senate. It will have a third reading tomorrow morning, according to the NC Senate web ...

Northern shrimp lay on snow Jan. 6, 2012, aboard a trawler in the Gulf of Maine.

Banning shrimp trawling in inland waters will improve North Carolina’s fishery, but commercial fishermen who lose business ...

Recent genetic testing in Charleston spurred calls for support for local shrimpers, but data shows they can't catch enough to ...

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

The North Carolina Senate passed a controversial shrimp trawl ban Wednesday. The vote was 41 to 4. Senators added the ban to House Bill 442.PREVIOUS STORY:Shri ...

A white shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico is held by a Louisiana biologist on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. The species has been the dominant type of shrimp harvested in North Carolina in recent years.

Anthony Street, 44, was arrested last week by the State Bureau of Investigation. He was charged with communicating threats to ...

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