LONGLINE FISHERIES

Moored longline boats in Pago Pago Harbor
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Walk into a fish market or grocery store in Hawai‘i and you are likely to see a poke counter. For that, you can thank a fisherman – and in many cases, a longliner. Beginning in the 1960s, commercial fishing in Hawai‘i shifted from smaller reef species to larger pelagic...