President Donald Trump’s order to re-open distant, protected Pacific waters to U.S. fishing fleets followed years of dire warnings by the region’s commercial seafood interests. Without that access, they said, American Samoa’s tuna industry could collapse. “This is not just a policy issue,” Taotasi Archie Soliai, a senior policy director for American Samoa’s governor, said … Continue reading Pacific Tuna Fleets Pushed To Lift Ban In Waters They Barely Fished