By Claire Turrell Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of ...

Mauga wrote that "thousands of foreign fishing boats, predominantly Chinese, surround that PRIA region border and often encroach and illegally fish upon it." Officials in American Samoa assert the ...

Humboldt County gave the public two chances to air concerns this week surrounding Nordic Aquafarms’ proposed onshore fish farm on the Samoa Peninsula. County planners held two public scoping ...

In Samoa, sea turtles are traditionally called I' a sa, or sacred fish, and are believed to guide lost fishermen to land, according to local stories. However, their worldwide survival is ...

Six businesses leasing property at the Samoa Peninsula will need to relocate after Nordic Aquafarms, the company seeking to build a $400 million land-based fish farm at Humboldt Bay, agreed to ...

(AC Jese Somerville/New Zealand Defence Force via AP) Fishermen from in the village of Siumu, Samoa, prepare to leave on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, to fish near the New Zealand navy ship HMNZS Manawanui ...

And there are other restrictions: other sovereign nation's rules and hefty fees determining who can fish where. It all means the fishable waters for American Samoa-based boats are fewer in number ...

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 ...

“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.