Source: Julia Sims, WRAL, 1/18/17

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 commercial fishermen. 1
The North Carolina Wildlife Federation had petitioned the state – the only one on the East Coast that allows shrimp trawling in its sounds and estuaries – to reduce the size ...

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