June 25, 2025 — North Carolina House Republicans won’t take up a bill that would ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina sounds, they said Wednesday — a decision met with jubilation from shrimpers in the Legislative Building.
Republican Rep. Mitchell Setzer, the House speaker pro tempore, confirmed the decision with The News & Observer.
House Bill 442 was revised early last week to include an amendment banning trawling within a half-mile of the coast. Before the amendment, the bill originally sought to expand fishing seasons for flounder and red snapper.