COLINGTON, N.C. — A chilly Wednesday night at Endurance Seafood brought together about 20 longtime fishermen in the Outer Banks, many whose ties to the crabbing industry go back generations.

"Family's been in the business 100 years or better. I went to school for architecture, didn't like being inside, come back and started crabbing," said Dana Beasley, who has been crabbing since 1992 from Currituck to Hatteras.

The meeting was held specifically to talk about the latest proposals surrounding regulation of the blue crab industry. The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries says that for years blue crabs have been overfished.

"We are very concerned about the overall crab stock that we have here in North Carolina. I would prefer rather doing something small now, and hopefully it will

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