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Tuna Cannery Points, Tutuila AS, 2007, US EPA Region 9

Metadata Updated: March 22, 2024

American Samoa's primary industry is tuna processing by the Samoa Packing Co., user of the "Chicken of the Sea" label, and StarKist Samoa. Canneries thrive in this tiny U.S. territory because they allow Asian fishing companies to avoid U.S. import tariffs of up to 35 percent on processed fish. Goods have duty- and quota-free entry to the United States if 30 percent of their value is added in the territory. Federal law prohibits foreign commercial fishing vessels from offloading tuna at U.S. ports; however, American Samoa is exempted. Thus the greater part of the South Pacific tuna catch is landed here, supplying the United States with the bulk of its canned tuna, worth US$500 million a year. In aggregate, the canneries contribute about US$25 million a year to the local economy in wages, and spend another US$40 million on support services, fuel, and provisioning.

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Dates

Metadata Date September 20, 2017
Metadata Created Date March 22, 2024
Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2024
Reference Date(s) January 1, 2007 (publication)
Frequency Of Update notPlanned

Metadata Source

Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date September 20, 2017
Metadata Created Date March 22, 2024
Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2024
Reference Date(s) January 1, 2007 (publication)
Responsible Party U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9 (Publisher)
Contact Email
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Access Constraints https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
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Bbox North Lat -14.270841
Bbox South Lat -14.324487
Bbox West Long 170.722616
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update notPlanned
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Harvest Source Title Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata
Licence None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated.
Lineage
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
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Progress underDevelopment
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2009-12-29
Temporal Extent End 2009-12-29

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