LONGLINE FISHERIES
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...

![Moored longline boats in Pago Pago Harbor, American Samoa, with the StarKist cannery across the bay. [photo: courtesy JDeMello] Moored longline boats in Pago Pago Harbor](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/as-ll-boats_.jpeg?itok=5HksgQQ5)