Dockside blues: Proposed house bill will hurt small fishermen - Salisbury Post

Dockside blues: Proposed house bill will hurt small fishermen - Salisbury Post

(Editor’s note: On Wednesday, the N.C. Senate passed through HB 442, a bill that would ban shoreline shrimp trawling in the state. It now returns to the General Assembly. Proponents of the bill argue it will help prevent bycatch. Opponents of the bill see it as an attack on fishermen’s livelihoods.) By Corbett Holden I can honestly say with my whole heart that growing up as a “fish house” kid was the best thing to ever happen to me. As a kid, g…