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DMWR Director Taotasi Archie Soliai and fishing community
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A team of NOAA scientists from the Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) presented a draft stock assessment of nine out of eleven federally managed bottomfish unit species to a panel of reviewers from the Center of Independent Experts (CIE) and Scientific and...
SWAINS ISLAND
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) has received a grant under the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s America the Beautiful Challenge (ATBC) in the amount of $864,300 for rat and other invasive species eradication. The “Swains Island Tropical...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More than $200,000 in federal funding awarded to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) was among the three projects in American Samoa that were awarded funds in fiscal year 2022, by NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Regional Office, according to a 2022...
 Taotasi Archie Soliai
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) director, Taotasi Archie Soliai has informed the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) that “bottomfishing is a culturally-important fishery in our islands” and that this “fishery was “damaged by the 2009 tsunami and has been...
Tuna boats in Pago Pago harbor
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fishing Industry Advisory Committee (FIAC) met last week to provide advice and recommendations to the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPFMC) when it meets March 22-24, including the following issues that affect American Samoa. PACIFIC STRATEGY...
Taotasi Archie Soliai
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) director Taotasi Archie Soliai has commended the U.S Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for “supporting our pelagic fisheries” through Amendment 9 to the Fishery Ecosystem Plan (FEP) for Pelagic Fisheries of the Western...
Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources staff weighing and measuring fish
Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources staff weighing and measuring fish caught on Wednesday during day-one of the Manu’a Flag Day Offshore Fishing Tournament on Ta’u Island. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]
Taotasi Archie Soliai
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Secretary of Interior, American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) and its director, Taotasi Archie Soliai, along with unnamed DMWR individuals and unnamed fishermen, are named as defendants in a new lawsuit filed in the federal court in...
Marine and Wildlife Resources director, Taotasi Archie Soliai
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “In observance of Flag Day [2021], all public schools will be closed on Friday, April 16,” declared Gov. Lemanu Peleti Sialega Mauga in his Holiday-Flay Day 2021 memorandum issued last Friday. He said all ASG employees shall report to their offices and/or respective...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General (DOI-OIG) is questioning spending totaling $23,080 designating it as ineligible and an additional $3,167 as unsupported following an audit of expenses claimed by the ASG Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources...

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