New Bern, N.C. — 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.
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 of trawler nets, limit how long nets could be pulled in the water, permit shrimping only three days per week and eliminate night-time shrimping.
An estimated 1,000 people attended a meeting in New Bern January 17th to be heard on the proposition.
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