RALEIGH, N.C. โ Trawlers wouldnโt be allowed to net shrimp in North Carolinaโs inland waters or within a half-mile of the coast under a proposal passed by the North Carolina Senate on Wednesday. Critics say the measure, if approved, would destroy the stateโs shrimping industry.
The new shrimp trawling prohibition was added Tuesday without much notice to a bill previously passed by the House. That bill was intended to create a short fishing season for flounder and red snapper for the next four years. Members of a Senate agriculture committee engaged in bitter debate Tuesday over the change with one lawmaker later calling it “Shrimpgate.”
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