A fishing cutter, photographed through the net of another boat, trawls for shrimp at Germany's North Sea coastline near the Jade river on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. A ban on inshore shrimp trawling is ...

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council moves forward on reopening the Oculina Bank coral reef. The council will host public meetings before making a formal decision. The Oculina Bank, named ...

North Carolina lawmakers have a plan to pay commercial fishermen impacted by proposed restrictions on shrimp trawling in the state's coastal sounds. The Senate gave its final approval to the trawling ...

Most days, John Potter, better known by his nickname “Tookie,” can be found sorting through shrimp nets and painting buoys in his backyard. “My grandfather and his brother started shucking oysters ...

North Carolina allows shrimp trawling of inshore waters, and is the only remaining state on the East Coast to do so. In this photo, a Louisiana biologist holds a white shrimp on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010.

Stakeholders are exploring strategies to boost Nigeria’s $53 billion shrimp industry as the United States enforces strict compliance with the use of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) in shrimp fishing.

A federal fishery management council once again has moved forward with a plan that would allow rock shrimpers to drag trawling nets along a protected Florida seafloor and rare deep-water coral reef ...