A U.S. Coast Guard boat crew stopped a commercial fishing vessel with 45,00 pounds of shrimp during a routine safety inspection this past Thursday.

Virginia could open a small commercial shrimp fishery off Virginia Beach, after a four-year experiment showed it is ecologically sustainable and commercially viable. The Virginia Marine Resources C… ...

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (AP) -North Carolina officials say commercial fishing in the state declined by weight last year even as shrimp volume increased to a record high.

Commercial fishing is the seventh-most regulated industry in the United States, according to North Carolina Fisheries Association, an organization of commercial fishermen.

A Coast Guard Station Key West law enforcement boat crew boarded a commercial fishing vessel last Thursday, approximately 12 miles off the Marquesas Keys, for a routine commercial fishing vessel ...

Banning shrimp trawling in inland waters will improve North Carolina's fishery, but commercial fishermen who lose business should be compensated.

Commercial fishermen harvest a wide variety of animals, ranging from tuna, cod, carp, and salmon to shrimp, krill, lobster, clams, squid, and crab, in various fisheries for these species.

Eight Maryland watermen are poised to trawl for shrimp off Ocean City after the state launched a pilot for a commercial shrimp fishery. More and more of the crustaceans are being found farther ...

The North Carolina Senate approved a bill Thursday that bans commercial shrimp trawling in inshore waters, including sounds.

Two commercial fishers in British Columbia have been fined a combined CAD 40,000 ($29,137) for illegally harvesting shrimp during a seasonal closure in waters off Vancouver Island, on Canada's ...