As Mainebiz reported, the restrictions have been in place since 2014 and aren't about to be reversed anytime soon. Because of ...

The general trawl zone is being closed to commercial shrimp fishing — the state’s most valuable fishery — to protect overwintering stock that cold water is threatening to kill outright or drive to ...

The North Carolina Senate approved a bill Thursday that bans commercial shrimp trawling in inshore waters, including sounds. Sen. Bobby Hanig, a Republican who represents multiple coastal counties, ...

A federal council is preparing to make a critical decision about whether to reopen parts of the Oculina Bank, one of 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 ...

Illegally caught pink shrimp in the hold of a fishing vessel approximately 12 miles off Marquesas Keys, Florida, Sept. 19, 2024. The fishing vessel was boarded by Coast Guard Station Key West for a ...

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 ...

Two commercial fishers in British Columbia have been fined a combined CAD 40,000 ($29,137) for illegally harvesting shrimp during a seasonal closure in waters off Vancouver Island, on Canada's west ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. The North Carolina Senate approved a bill Thursday that bans commercial shrimp trawling in inshore waters, including sounds. Sen.

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 ...