Advocates and businesses of the shrimping and seafood industry gathered at the North Carolina Legislative Building to protest a proposed ban on inland trawling. (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline) ...

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 ...

James Blanchard, a fourth-generation shrimper, was prepared to hang up his nets because of collapsing prices caused by ...

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 ...

Supporters of the ban say trawling damages fish habitats and depletes fish populations, while shrimpers argue it would devastate their livelihoods. A study on the impacts of trawling and a lawsuit ...

India produces approximately 900,000 to 930,000 tonnes of shrimp annually, with production volumes fluctuating due to factors such as disease outbreaks, unseasonal rains, and feed costs. In FY 2023-24 ...

Stakeholders are exploring strategies to boost Nigeria’s $53 billion shrimp industry as the United States enforces strict compliance with the use of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) in shrimp fishing.

Advisory committees to the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission on Tuesday recommended against a petition to restrict shrimp trawlers operating in coastal sounds after hearing from hundreds of ...

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council moves forward on reopening the Oculina Bank coral reef. The council will host public meetings before making a formal decision. The Oculina Bank, named ...