illegal fishing
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming advancement of a bill she cosponsors, the Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests (FISH) Act, H.R. 3756, which cracks down on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by strengthening inspections and penalties for vessels participating in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Pew Charitable Trust believes the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) needs to do more on port side measures in order to reduce illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
And getting transshipment in the high seas management also needs urgent...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga told the U.S Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that American Samoa lacks resources to enforce illegal fishing — which seriously impacts the canneries — outside of the 200-miles territorial waters.
The governor participated...