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Pacific Remote Island Areas

Hawaii Congressman Ed Case
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S Congressman Ed Case (D-Hawaii) has responded to concerns over the “perceived impacts on communities reliant on fishing” on the federal proposal for marine sanctuary designation for the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PIRA) — a move that would expand the Pacific Remote...
Area proposed for Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Sanctuary
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More than 1,200 StarKist Samoa cannery workers have signed a petition, which voices their opposition to the federal proposal for marine sanctuary designation for the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PIRA) — a move that would expand the Pacific Remote Island Marine National...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S based, American Tunaboat Association (ATA) is urging the U.S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration “to establish a management plan for any Pacific Remote Islands sanctuary that does not further restrict commercial fishing in areas where such activity is...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Members of locally-based, Tautai O Samoa Longline and Fishing Association, have joined ASG officials and others in the community in voicing their opposition to the proposed sanctuary designation of the Pacific Remote Island Areas — a move that would expand Pacific Remote...
Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P.S Mauga has argued that American Samoa needs more time to — among other things — “develop and provide evidence to support their objections” to the federal proposal for marine sanctuary designation for the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PIRA) — a move that...
Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Please hear and consider American Samoa’s strong objection to the designation of a Marine Sanctuary around the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIA),” wrote Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga in a Mar. 30 letter to U.S President Joe Biden. Lemanu recalled for the President that this...