![Congresswoman Amata and U.S. Mint Director David Ryder joined a hardworking team from the Park sheltering from a tropical rain in Feb. 2020. National Park Week is being celebrated this week. [courtesy photo]](/sites/default/files/styles/news_teaser/public/NatPARKweek_ASM.jpg?itok=aS7lO_4e)
Wednesday, Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata highlighted the National Park of American Samoa as part of National Park Week (April 17-25), an initiative of the National Park Service (NPS) and the National Park Foundation...The United States is home to 63 National Parks and 423 sites in the National P
...A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the U.S.
Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga's declaration that Manu’a’s marine and rainforest resources be developed has inspired a flurry of private sector economic development. At the heart of the development is the evidentiary research of Dr. Peter Craig of the National Park Service and Dr.
Chinese fishing boats’ illegal overfishing in the South Pacific has been devastating some island economies. According to two former U.S.
The public is invited to attend NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa virtual meeting of the Sanctuary Advisory Council via Google Meet video conferencing (due to COVID restrictions and safety protocols)...Items on the agenda include updates NMSAS Condition Report, Conservation Scien
A record-sized coral colony has been found in American Samoa. Researchers with NOAA and several other agencies found the massive oval-shaped colony during a monitoring survey in the waters around Ta'u Island, known for large coral colonies...The colony measures more than 26 feet tall.
NOAA-funded researchers, and partners have identified a new record size coral colony at Ta’u Island in American Samoa, even larger than the island’s Big Momma colony, one of the largest in the world.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Palau’s International Coral Reef Center on marine protected areas, including the establishment of a sister sanctuary arrangement between Puipuiga lautele o le Gataifale o Amerika Samoa
![The SSC will set the acceptable biological catch for the American Samoa bottomfish fishery for fishing years 2021-2022. [courtesy photo]](/sites/default/files/styles/news_teaser/public/BottomfishCATCH_AS.jpg?itok=8gv3f3zi)
The Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council will set the acceptable biological catch for the American Samoa bottomfish fishery for fishing years 2021-2022.
Although American Samoa has the oldest regularly monitored coral reef transect and is in many ways the cradle of coral reef science, the Territory still has too few local coral researchers.