The canneries are gone. The pollution has abated.

Trucking companies, investment houses, canneries, credit jewelry, 38 stores.

In 1991, the two canneries provided employment for 4,033 persons and accounted for the bulk of local tax revenues. 11

For the workers at the tuna canneries, the rate was set at 3.00 and would rise to 3.05 a year later.

The two largest employers are the Government and the two tuna canneries which together provide approximately 63 per cent of the jobs.

People working in these canneries could barely stay there all day because of the smell, but you know what they came out saying?

Seasonal employment is provided for between 20 and 30 women in fish processing by the St. Helena Fisheries Corporation, a statutory Corporation, and St. Helena Canneries.

Seasonal employment is provided for between 20 and 30 women in fish processing by the St. Helena Fisheries Corporation, a statutory Corporation, and St. Helena Canneries.

46. In 1990, the canneries were fined a total of 250,000 for violating the American Samoa Environment Act by polluting the waters of Pago Pago harbour.

Both canneries have since agreed to treat waste from their operations and then transport it by barge to a designated dumping site 8 kilometres out to sea.

26. With regard to the economic status of the Territory, Mr. Sunia said that the Territory was economically stable, and that about 70 per cent of the workforce employed in the tuna canneries was imported labour, which gave an indication of the available job opportunities.

65. In February 1993, after a long and sometimes acrimonious debate, a majority of 52 per cent of the workers at the Star Kist tuna cannery voted against joining the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Workers in the two canneries thus remain non unionized. 18

Since 80 per cent of the American Samoa private sector economy is dependent either directly or indirectly on two United States tuna canneries (StarKist and Chicken of the Sea), the fear in the Territory is that the Andean Free Trade Agreement will devastate the local economy.

In 1931, she produced California's first community based marine protected area, right next to the biggest polluting cannery, because Julia knew that when the canneries eventually were gone, the ocean needed a place to grow from, that the ocean needed a place to spark a seed, and she wanted to provide that seed.

In 1931, she produced California's first community based marine protected area, right next to the biggest polluting cannery, because Julia knew that when the canneries eventually were gone, the ocean needed a place to grow from, that the ocean needed a place to spark a seed, and she wanted to provide that seed.