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 ...

North Carolina lawmakers have a plan to pay commercial fishermen impacted by proposed restrictions on shrimp trawling in the state's coastal sounds. The Senate gave its final approval to the trawling ...

A federal fishery management council once again has moved forward with a plan that would allow rock shrimpers to drag trawling nets along a protected Florida seafloor and rare deep-water coral reef ...

Most days, John Potter, better known by his nickname “Tookie,” can be found sorting through shrimp nets and painting buoys in his backyard. “My grandfather and his brother started shucking oysters ...

North Carolina allows shrimp trawling of inshore waters, and is the only remaining state on the East Coast to do so. In this photo, a Louisiana biologist holds a white shrimp on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010.

It’s an ominous sign when something in the water starts “jerking around” a boat, and it started happening as Zachary Willis pulled his shrimp nets from North Carolina’s Neuse River. Clearly, he caught ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – June 2 marked the opening day for shrimp trawling season in the Lowcountry, and for one fisherman, it was one of his most challenging days in his lifelong career. Rocky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly everyone agrees the fight over the future of shrimping in North Carolina isn't close to being over. But where the emotional ...