BOTTOMFISH CATCH LIMITS
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Concerned with the proposed federal bottomfish rebuilding plan for American Samoa, which will reduce this local fishery, the governor is seeking U.S National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) assistance to develop an economic plan that includes compensation due to loss of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While American Samoa’s Marine & Wildlife Resources director, Taotasi Archie Soliai has submitted an official comment to federal fisheries managers over the proposed catch limits for bottomfish — highlighting the cultural importance of the fishery — fishing...
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...