EDITORIAL: Consumers hold the future of NC’s shrimping industry

Coastal communities fear the many ripple effects of a shrimp trawling ban

When traveling east on U.S. 64 – the main highway that connects central N.C. to the Outer Banks – drivers will encounter a billboard encouraging visitors to ask for local seafood.Image from Google MapsPart of the “Got To Be NC” marketing campaign, an initiative on behalf of the state’s Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services to promote N.C. agricultural goods, the billboard includes a link to https://nc-seafood.org/, which further touts th…

EDITORIAL: Consumers hold the future of NC’s shrimping industry

Never before have the citizens of North Carolina been treated so shabbily as they were this past Wednesday when the N.C. State Senate voted in a suspicious show of bipartisanship to shut down one of the state’s oldest and most…