Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of climate change.

This has driven American fishermen to fish further offshore in international ... for United States territories like American Samoa, whose private sector economy is over 80 percent dependent ...

None of the areas is near American Samoa — the closest is roughly 1,000 ... PIH is “ideally located” for the conservation of migratory fish, especially given that warming waters caused ...

But underwater, a mile off the coast, a sunken New Zealand naval vessel is forcing them to travel farther away to fish than before, and worrying many in the area about the future. SIUMU, ...

“We doubled the amount of petrol to go far out to get fish,” said Faalogo Afereti Taliulu, citing advice from Samoa’s government that seafood from around the sunken ship should not be eaten.