A pause on shrimp fishing that’s been in place for more than a decade has now been extended another three years. Despite the ...

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 ...

After galvanizing an industry, sparking death threats for state lawmakers and creating a divide between the House and Senate, a bill prohibiting shrimp trawling in North Carolina’s sounds was the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Coastal waterways are officially open as of 8 a.m. Monday for 2025′s commercial shrimping season. Shrimp trawling season — the time of year for the commercial fishing ...

The weather is cold right now, but for the native shrimp population in the Gulf of Maine, scientists say the problem is that ...

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 ...

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 ...

(WNCT) — One conservation group in North Carolina is taking a stand, saying fish like Gray Trout and Croaker can’t survive if commercial shrimp trawlers are allowed to run their nets in the Pamlico ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virginia could open a small commercial shrimp fishery off Virginia Beach, after a four-year experiment showed it is ecologically sustainable and commercially viable. The Virginia Marine Resources ...