No Fish, No Production at StarKist Samoa
There’s no production at StarKist Samoa today. Employees have been given the day off because there’s apparently no fish to process and pack. All this week, production tables at the Star Kist ...Read more
There’s no production at StarKist Samoa today. Employees have been given the day off because there’s apparently no fish to process and pack. All this week, production tables at the Star Kist ...Read more
The parent company of StarKist Samoa is not answering questions about a cut back in hours for cannery employees this week. Company spokesperson Michelle Faist said in an email this morning, ...Read more
Employees of StarKist Samoa are working reduced hours beginning this week because of a shortage of fish. Cannery workers tell KHJ News that Starkist Samoa began closing down production ...Read more
Governor Lolo Moliga has welcomed with joy the positive outcome of negotiations between the United States and Pacific island countries concerning the South Pacifc Tuna Treaty. According to the ...Read more
While there’s been much discussion on the need to boost skills in trades that are now imported from off island, not much has materialized. But some progress is slowly being made through a ...Read more
Many will be breathing a sigh of relief upon hearing the good news that the parties have come to an agreement on a fishing deal that would allow US tuna boats back into Pacifc island waters to ...Read more
The American Samoa Fisheries Task Force is collecting information from ASG departments and agencies that will help them make a recommendation to the governor concerning requests from the two ...Read more
Samoa Tuna Processors has appointed a new General Manager to replace Herman Gebauer who was appointed in 2014 as GM of the local cannery. A press release from the company says that Gebauer has ...Read more
Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat Program said in its feature of American Samoa’s dilemma due to restriction on fishing grounds for U.S. tuna boats, that the US fleet is facing a perfect storm: ...Read more
The parent company of StarKist Samoa, StarKist, StarKist has underscored the importance of the US flagged purse seiner fleet that direct deliver to its local plant. StarKist Vice President Michelle ...Read more