North Carolina's blue crab population has been declining for over a decade, prompting regulators to consider new restrictions. Proposed restrictions include seasonal closures and catch limits ...

We must ban trawlers in inland waterways. And North Carolina is the only state on the east coast that still allows gill nets.

“They set up a thing saying that you had to catch 'X' amount of pounds per year to keep your commercial fishing license, your blue crab license. If you're worried about the population, what you ...

A joyous sign of spring and summer is the clusters of small crab sheds lying along the shorelines of the Rappahannock and ...

The claws are coming out as North Carolina regulators float plans to manage the state's blue crab fishery, On one side are biologists with the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, who say the ...