FFA Director Optimistic US Will Accept New Deal

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American Samoa‘s tuna industry hangs in the balance while Washington and Pacific island countries negotiate a new fishing deal that would secure fishing grounds for American tuna boats that supply the local canneries StarKist Samoa and Samoa Tuna Processors.

The Pacific island countries which are party to the tuna treaty with the US are awaiting a decision from Washington DC on a new proposal that was reached at a meeting in Nadi, Fiji earlier this week.

Director General of the Forum Fisheries Agency James Movick explains to the Australia Broadcasting Corporation’s Pacific Beat Program how the proposal was structured.

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The FFA boss hopes the US will approve the plan so that US purse seiners can return to fish in the exclusive economic zones of Pacific island countries.

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