Column: American Samoa deserves to thrive as fishing shifts | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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Column: American Samoa deserves to thrive as fishing shifts | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

The perilous state of American Samoa’s last tuna cannery is an outcome that experts have long warned about. An international shift in the fishing industry, largely driven by countries with lower workforce standards and pay and subsidized infrastructures, makes U.S. competition in the cannery industry unavailing.