NEW BERN, N.C. (WNCT) – Proposed regulations on shrimpers could have significant impacts on the daily catches as well as the fishing industry in eastern North Carolina. The biggest talking point ...

Shrimp is one of the most popular types of seafood consumed in the United States. Shrimp trawling uses nets towed slowly near the bottom of the water. Turtle excluder and bycatch reduction devices ...

An industry work group will tell the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission on Thursday that it has found a way to modify nets to significantly reduce the bycatch of finfish and other species during shrimp ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Jess H. Hawkins III and Allyn Powell While shrimpers do catch small fish, called ...

Julio Jose and Manuel Andres are immersed waist-deep in 75-degree water in a 100-ton poly tank. Armed with large mesh dip nets, they begin their weekly task of shrimp wrangling. Even though the shrimp ...

This fall, Sonny Gwin and a few other Maryland watermen will trawl the coast of Ocean City for a new bounty: shrimp. Thanks, climate change. Pass the cocktail sauce. For the first time, a small group ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Louis Daniel and Jack Travelsted A flotilla of about a dozen shrimp trawlers ...

Shrimpers and biologists surprised the experts last summer by using modified trawl nets that drastically reduced the amount of popular fish caught and discarded. The nets were fitted with a variety of ...