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 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.

Environmental groups are suing the Dutch government, claiming bottom trawling on Dogger Bank violates marine protection laws ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Bringing a parade of shrimp trucks to Jones Street, shrimpers from Eastern North Carolina made their presence known at the legislature to oppose a bill they say would ...

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 ...

WANCHESE — The tourists come from Pennsylvania and Maryland, from South Dakota and Texas, from just about everywhere, to North Carolina’s Outer Banks for a week of sun, water and relaxation. And when ...

Scampi fishing in the North Sea is driving a "largely invisible" climate cost by disturbing carbon that has been buried in seabeds for thousands of years, scientists have found. Research led by the ...

A potential ban on inland shrimp trawling has become one of the most controversial bills moving through North Carolina's state legislature. Why it matters: The proposal, which would ban trawling less ...

Researchers from the University of Exeter examined seabed carbon in the Fladen Ground, where crustaceans such as Norwegian lobster are caught by bottom trawling ...