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

Study commissioned by lawmakers is silent on whether the state should ban shrimp trawling. But it urges changes in how North ...

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

Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the Legislative Building in droves over the past week as ...

The trawl forms a flattened cone shape, where the bottom line, also called the foot rope, is weighed down, skimming the surface of the floor. And the top line — or head rope — floats, keeping ...

Why is trawling bad for the ocean? Conservationists say trawling threatens marine biodiversity by destroying habitats on the ocean floor and indiscriminately catching sea life. Bigger fish as well as ...

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.

Bottom trawling is a type of fishing that involves dragging large weighted nets along the seafloor to catch fish. But it also damages the ocean floor, and can hurt other marine life living there.

The ban on shrimp trawling in North Carolina sounds and within a half-mile of the coast emerged June 16 as an amendment to that bill. The Senate approved the amendment to be incorporated into the ...

Trawling is a form of fishing that involves pulling a large, durable net attached to a boat. The net — often made of synthetic fibers — reaches close or touches the ocean floor to scoop up ...