Manteo, NC (Wavy) – Chef Alex Rodriguez at Restaurant 1587 throws a handful of shrimp in a pan with a sense and flame, preparing a gumbo that will head the accumulating grit. But they are not just any shrimp, they are green tails obtained from the nearby Pamlico Sound.
The food industry penetrates the life of external banks, from boats to the tables of the restaurant. Therefore House Bill 442 It causes so much concern.
The bill itself would restore the fishing season for at least six weeks for bells and red ostriches-a four-day season-but the North Carolina Senate added a ban on piercing shrimp for the internal waters that would not allow it in the sound or any internal waters. This would force the shrimp to be carried out in the ocean waters at least half a mile on the shore. The Senate also adopted a bill that will save the shrimp over the next three years.
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Proponents of the ban claim that policy is needed to help other fish in the albemarle-pamlico esturaly system and to help fishing for relaxation in the region. State Senate leader Phil Berger said that the ban on the interior of the passage will bring the state with such bans in Virginia and South Carolina.
Only four senators, all Republicans from the coastal regions, voted against the bill, including Bobby Hanig, which is a large part of the northeastern North Carolina.
The North Carolina Senate voted to cross the bill “Shrimp on the shore”
The dispute here in the external banks has become so heated that he won a nickname – shrimp.
Britton Shakelford’s ancestors have been working in the waters of North Carolina and Virginia for hundreds of years.
“My little son stood on a big boat. My biggest son, he grows on his own boat,” he said on Tuesday at the port of Vanchaz.
They are part of a role rally, trying to persuade legislators to turn the legislation course. Governments along the northeastern North Carolina coast, including those of Currituck CountyDare County and Hyde County have expressed their opposition to the bill. The Secretary of State of Agriculture, Stephen Troxler, also issued a letter on Monday, expressing his opposition to the trawl ban amendment.
Local authorities, fishermen speak against the restriction of Bill Shrimp trauling
Schacelford said the punching of Pamlico Sound shrimp to the ocean is “Not even an option. You don’t have a gear, you have no net. Just so you can control this, it’s a larger boat, a larger net.”
Mando Jill Thompson’s chef will also be affected. “This is not a large commercial structure here. These are small families who manage small dashing boats with small nets. And this is their livelihood. So I’m really worried about friends and family.”
Thompson said there is no substitute for the green tail and brown shrimp that comes out of the sound of taste and freshness.
“Generally the shore of the table here, on your plate. They are incredible. They have a taste of lobster. They are absolutely tasty. And that will really affect the restaurants here and the chefs who serve them,” she said.
If fishermen, restaurants and chefs cannot receive local shrimp, they say they will have to get it on the other side of the world, probably Southeast Asia and the quality will suffer.
“Less than half of 1% are even checked,” Shakelford said. “There is so little follow that all they do is bring it to the next port. Fully unregulated, without quality control.”
“We don’t know anything [about imported Asian shrimp]said Thompson. – Very little is known about the path of where these shrimp goes before they come to our plate.
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