US Tuna Boats Seek Level Playing Field
Going into next week’s meeting of the organization called the Western and Central Pacific fisheries Commission, aka Tuna Commission, the body which regulates the fishing of tuna in the ...Read more
Going into next week’s meeting of the organization called the Western and Central Pacific fisheries Commission, aka Tuna Commission, the body which regulates the fishing of tuna in the ...Read more
The main goal of American Samoa’s delegation to the annual meeting of the governing body for tuna in the Pacific Ocean, the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, is to support the ...Read more
The wheels of justice turn slowly but they do turn. A press release from the US Department of Justice says fishing company Pacific Freeze Fisheries, owners of a purse seine that offloads its catch ...Read more
At last week’s meeting of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) reported that the American Samoa fisheries and canneries were impacted ...Read more
Among the achievements highlighted at this year’s meeting of the Pacific Island Forum leaders, is the successful negotiation of the US Pacific Tuna Treaty. Lt. Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga is ...Read more
The Tri Marine Western and Central Pacific skipjack and yellowfin tuna fishery has achieved Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for free school tuna caught using its purse seine ...Read more
Production continues to be slow at the territory’s biggest private sector employer, Starkist Samoa, because of limited fish supplies. There was no work Monday for the cannery and some production ...Read more
The owners of StarKist Samoa, StarKist Company, are pleased that an agreement has been reached that will allow the U.S. flagged purse seine fleet to resume fishing in their traditional fishing ...Read more
(PRESS RELEASE-Fisheries Forum Agency)…US vessels are to resume tuna fishing in the Pacific in a matter of days, thanks to an “extraordinary effort” on the part of Pacific island ...Read more