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Shrimp season
Shrimpers note a cautious optimism heading into the new season, which starts April 19 in provisional areas. White shrimp populations have stayed above the long-term average since January, due to warm water temperatures through the winter, but shrimpers still worry the market is oversaturated with imported, farm-raised shrimp.
Crabbers succeeded in sinking a bill April 17 that would have introduced regulations on the state’s troubled blue crab fishery for the first time amid plummeting catches over the last two decades.
Crime Corner
Two of four men charged with murder in a fatal drive-by shooting that left a 6-year-old boy dead pleaded guilty this week.
A South Carolina prison inmate is facing federal charges for an online sextortion scheme conducted through an online dating site that led to a person's suicide in Michigan.Â
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