March 5, 2026 — The fishing community and many on the Outer Banks breathed a major sigh of relief in June 2025 when a NC Senate measure that would have imposed a shrimp trawling ban died in the NC House.
The hard-fought victory came after protestors opposed to the measure—which would have banned trawling in all of the state’s inland waters and within a half-mile of the Atlantic shoreline—showed up in force in Raleigh to pressure legislators. The Outer Banks Voice – Shrimp trawling ban dies in NC House this session