American Samoa Tuna Cannery

American Samoa canning factory forced to stop due to lack of food

America's biggest privately owned company, the cannery factory Starfist Samoa, will close next weekend due to a lack of seafood. Last October the cannery closed for just over a weeks, partly due to a lack of fresh seafood. Storkist had tried to save lands for the storage of iced seafood.

Fed Fed. aux Samoa Regierung, Cannery to Act on Fishery Maters.

american samoa, uulei - October 19, 2017 - The following has been published by the western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council: Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council decided at the Rex Lee Auditorium in andtulei, American Samoa, to implement the following measures regarding the fishing of American Samoa in federally owned water bodies (3 to 200 sea-mile off shore) today.

The American Samoa Marine Conservation Plan (MCP): Noting that the American Samoa Metropolitan Police Force will expire in mid-2018, the Council recommends that the Government of American Samoa (ASG) hold stakeholder consultations to evolve its new Metropolitan Police Force before submission to the Council in early 2018. Identifying fishing developement schemes to be financed from certain penalties or charges for fishing in the US EEZ around American Samoa.

cThe Council will invite ASG to consider which division should have a sand-mining regulatory approval and implementation body and to re-examine the rules to make sure that they are consistent with other programmes for the exploitation of resources. This will also be an encouragement to the ASG to develop capacities for cooperation between the authorities and municipalities in the day-to-day running of the exploitation of resources and in educational and public relations work.

Specifically, the Council will ask the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources of American Samoa to differentiate retailer information between international longlines and indigenous longlines and to meet its needs for gathering and financing it. Long-line expansion project: Council suggested that ASG undertake to allocate resources for the building of the long line landing stage or the Council is considering reprogramming the resources it needs to assist the projec.

Three Marine/Samoa Tuna Packers (STP): It will request that the Council allow the American Samoa longliners to enter the small port of the STP, which the Council was involved in financing. It will also ask the Council for a report on the state of the company's establishment and operation in American Samoa. The STP has recently been shut down, making StarKist the only tuna canning factory operating in the area.

Today the Council will close its session at the Rex Lee Auditorium. Regional Council for Fisheries Management in the Western Pacific: Minister of Commerce of nominated by the American Samoa, CNMI, Guam and Hawai`i Governors: Michael Duenas, Guam Fishermen's Cooperative Association (Guam) (Vice Chair); John Gourley, Micronesian Environmental Services (CNMI) (Vice Chair); Christinna Lutu-Sanchez, Merchant Fisher (American Samoa) (Vice Chair); Michael Goto, United Fishing Agency (Hawai'i); Dean Sensui, Movie Producing (Hawai'i); Archie Soliai, StarKist (American Samoa).

Hawai`i Department of Land & Natural Resources ; Ray Roberto, CNMI Department of Lands and Natural Resources ; Matt Sablan, Guam Department of Agriculture ; Henry Sesepasra, American Samoa Department of Marine & Wildlife Resources. NMFS Pacific Islands Regional Office. USFWS ; Michael Brakke, US-Außenministerium ; RADM Vincent B. Atkins, USCG 13thon, USCG 14e District.