North Carolina: Petition seeks to introduce new rules to commercial fishing industry

A petition by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation (NCWF) could have a major impact on the commercial fishing industry. The petition seeks to:
Limit shrimpers workweek from five days (Monday-Friday) to three (Monday, Wednesday, Friday). To designate areas as shrimp trawl management areas. Reduce the size of nets allowed and restrict gear in these newly designated areas. The federation says the reason for the petition is to reduce the amount of by-catch. By-catch is the anything in the net that’s not your intended species. It’s common for shrimpers to catch juvenile fish in their nets while shrimping. >click to read< 12:07

One Response to North Carolina: Petition seeks to introduce new rules to commercial fishing industry

  1. Roderick Ellison says:

    Need take one or two of them people out shrimping for bout a dam week and let them see just wat it takes too make a living working hard like that then maybe they won’t pass all these dum ass laws and stop importing this bullshit seafood

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