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Palau rock islands
August 6, 2021
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“PNMS belongs to the Palauan people, ours to benefit from and so if the intent of this bill to open up the marine sanctuary is to aid the economic recovery, we support that but we have to go back to the Palauan people to say, is it really going to benefit us as a people,” said King Sam, Director of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary, of the proposed House bill to re-open the PNMS to purse seine and long-line fishing companies.

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