Amendment 5 Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the American Samoa Archipelago : Rebuilding Plan for the American Samoa Bottomfish Fishery Including an Environmental Assessment and Regulatory Impact Review (RIN 0648-BK79)
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposes to implement a rebuilding plan for the bottomfish multi-species stock complex in American Samoa with an annual catch limit (ACL) and accountability measures (AM) for the bottomfish fishery. The Western...
Economic contributions of U.S. commercial fisheries in American Samoa
U.S. commercial fisheries provide significant contributions to American Samoa island communities from economic, social, and cultural perspectives. U.S. fisheries—primarily the purse seine fishery, longline fishery, and small boat fishery—land their fish i...
In 1999, the U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA, and the Commonwealth of American Samoa began a collaborative effort to address nine abandoned fishing vessels on a reef in Pago Pago, American Samoa. These vessels were a public nuisance and posed an array of threats, ...
An investigation into marine resource use and management in Aunu'u, American Samoa a household survey
A household survey was carried out in the community of Aunu'u, American Samoa. Aunu'u island has a land area of 1.52 km2 (0.59 m2) and a population of 476 (U.S. Census 2000). Like other Pacific Island cultures, the Samoans have depended on coral reef reso...
Participatory, learning and action (PLA) resource guide for practitioners to build, enhance and promote resource conservation and management
Collaborative management is one of the most effective tools to ensure community participation in resource management. It describes a partnership among different stakeholders for the management of an area or resources. More managers, researchers, leaders a...
Economic and social characteristics of the American Samoa small boat fishery : 2021
This report summarizes data from the 2021 American Samoa small boat fishery cost-earnings survey. For this report, we define small boat fishing as fishing from vessels 50 ft in length and smaller for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. We exclude...
The purpose of this Priority Setting document is to articulate a set of strategic coral reef management priorities developed in consensus by the coral reef managers in American Samoa. NOAA will use this document in conjunction with its 2010-2015 Coral Ree...
Coral reef ecosystems of American Samoa : a 2002-2010 overview
This booklet provides an overview of key findings and temporal trends from the Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) research surveys conducted in American Samoa in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010 by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Divis...
Report of 2005 American Samoa Coral Reef Monitoring Program (ASCRMP), expanded edition
The primary intent of the ASCRMP is to collect data on a yearly basis by on-island staff in order to detect change and trends in the measured parameters over a period of years. The ASCRM was not designed primarily to compare sites to each other based on g...
A new record for a massive Porites colony at Ta’u Island, American Samoa
An exceptionally large, hermatypic colony of Porites sp. has been identified and measured at Ta’u, American Samoa. This coral was measured in November 2019 as part of an effort to catalogue all large (≥ 2 m diameter) Porites colonies around Ta’u. Colonies...
Status and Trends Assessment for Land-based Sources of Pollution Impacts on Benthic Reef Communities in Faga‘alu Bay, American Samoa
This report provides a summary of key findings for work completed between 2012 and 2020 to assess the effectiveness of management actions conducted at the Samoa Maritime quarry in Faga‘alu, American Samoa. Collectively, these data offer a contrast between...
American Samoa's Marine Protected Area System: Institutions, Governance, and Scale
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a primary marine conservation strategy in the U.S. territory of American Samoa, which has a goal to protect 20% of its coral reef area under “no-take” MPAs. The territory implements MPAs by using diverse governance approa...
The purpose of this supplement is to provide additional information on watershed restoration projects and activities to support implementation of the 2012 Faga'alu Village Watershed projects and activities to support implementation of the 2012 Faga'alu Vi...
Annotated checklist for stony corals of American Sāmoa with reference to mesophotic depth records
An annotated checklist of the stony corals (Scleractinia, Milleporidae, Stylasteridae, and Helioporidae) of American Sāmoa is presented. A total of 377 valid species has been reported from American Sāmoa with 342 species considered either present (251) or...
American Samoa Territorial Monitoring Program Manu'a reef flat baseline surveys, February 2015
As part of the CRAG-DMWR American Samoa Territorial Monitoring Program, baseline coral reef monitoring surveys of reef flat sites in Ofu and Olosega were conducted between 14th -- 18th February 2015 by Dr. Mareike Sudek (benthic ecologist) and Alice Lawre...
NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program : project progress report FY2011/12
In 2005 the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) initiated a comprehensive long-term monitoring program for the reefs in American Samoa, the American Samoa Coral Reef Monitoring Program (ASCRMP). Funding was provided through the Coral Reef C...
Workshop report : improving data collection, storage handling, visualization, and analyses for coral reef monitoring programs
A workshop was conducted to improve the analytical expertise within resource monitoring and management programs in American Samoa. Key topics covered were database development, data querying, univariate and multivariate visualization, statistical power as...
Cruise report, NOAA Ship Hi`ialakai, Cruise HA-12-01, Legs II and III, 1-27 April 2012, American Samoa, Tutuila Island, Ofu and Olosega Islands, Ta`u Island, and Rose Atoll
Personnel from the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Fagatele National Marine Sanctuary, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and University of Hawai`i at Hilo conducted interdisciplinary Pacific Reef As...
Watershed and coastal mapping mapbook : Utulei, Faga'alu, Fatumafuti, 2014
This map book contains cartographic products derived from the American Samoa Watershed and Coastal Mapping project for Fatumafuti, Faga'alu, and Utulei villages, conducted in American Samoa in January 2014. These maps are based on information gathered thr...
American Samoa Coral Reef Monitoring Program : progress report FY13/14
In 2005 the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) initiated a comprehensive long-term monitoring program for the reefs in American Samoa, the American Samoa Coral Reef Monitoring Program (ASCRMP). Funding was provided through the Coral Reef C...
Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program Benthic monitoring summary: American Samoa 2018
The purpose of this document is to provide a brief summary of the most recent survey efforts performed in American Samoa in 2018 by the Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center as part of the Pacific Reef Asse...
This report details the results of a series of analyses conducted by PIFSC staff to support the development of the American Samoa Jurisdictional Coral Reef Fisheries Management Plan (JCR-FMP). These analyses examine (1) status and trends in population siz...
Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. Fish monitoring brief : American Samoa, 2015
The purpose of this document is to outline the most recent survey efforts conducted by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center as part of the long-term monitoring program known as the Pacific Reef Asse...
Climate resiliency responses and actions for Amouli Village, American Samoa
Global climate change is acknowledged as the greatest environmental concern of our time. Human activities have affected the land, oceans, and atmosphere, and these changes in turn have altered global climate patterns. Over the 20th century, the Earth's gl...
Cruise report, NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai, Cruise 08-02, 18 February-19 March 2008, American Samoa
Personnel from the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), NOAA, and their partner agencies conducted integrated coral reef ecosystem assessment and monitoring surve...
Amendment 5 Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the American Samoa Archipelago : Rebuilding Plan for the American Samoa Bottomfish Fishery Including an Environmental Assessment and Regulatory Impact Review (RIN 0648-BK79)