About 100 shrimpers and others opposed to the ban cheered in the state legislative building as House Republicans emerged from a caucus meeting and announced that they wouldn’t push forward with the bill.
The ban would have pushed shrimp trawling off-shore. Critics said the proposal would have destroyed the industry.
Sen. Bobby Hanig and Rep. Keith Kidwell, coastal lawmakers and fierce opponents of the ban, told WRAL that House Bill 442 would not advance this session. Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, an opponent of the measure, also told WRAL that it wouldn’t move forward.
Hanig, a former House member, said the House Republicans voted unanimously not to move the bill forward.
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