TY - BOOK ID - 58405180 TI - Balancing the Tides : Marine Practices in American S?moa PY - 2020 SN - 0824883527 082488339X 0824879686 9780824883522 PB - University of Hawai'i Press DB - UniCat KW - Tuna canning industry. KW - Marine resources KW - Fishery policy. KW - Fishery management. KW - Tuna canning industry KW - Fishery policy KW - Fishery management KW - Management. KW - American Samoa. KW - Fish management KW - Fisheries KW - Fisheries management KW - Fishery resources KW - Aquatic resources KW - Wildlife management KW - Fish counting towers KW - Overfishing KW - Fisheries policy KW - Fishes KW - Fishing policy KW - Economic policy KW - Canned tuna industry KW - Canned fish industry KW - Canned tuna KW - Ocean KW - Ocean resources KW - Resources, Marine KW - Sea resources KW - Commercial products KW - Marine biology KW - Natural resources KW - Oceanography KW - Management KW - Government policy KW - Conservation KW - Economic aspects KW - American Samoa KW - Amerika Samoa KW - Amerikaans Samoa KW - Amerikanisch-Samoa KW - Eastern Samoa KW - Ostsamoa Samoa KW - Samoa KW - Sāmoa Amelika KW - Samoa américaines KW - Samoa Americana KW - Samoainseln KW - Territory of American Samoa KW - AS (American Samoa) KW - ASM (American Samoa) KW - Samoa (U.S.) KW - Samoainseln (U.S.) KW - Samoa (1873-1899) KW - Australasian & Pacific history KW - Politics & government KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Jurisprudence & general issues KW - Agriculture, agribusiness & food production industries KW - Microeconomics KW - International economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:58405180 AB - "Balancing the Tides highlights the influence of marine practices and policies in the unincorporated territory of American Sāmoa on the local indigenous group, the American fishing industry, international seafood consumption, U.S. environmental programs, as well as global ecological and native concerns. Poblete explains how U.S. federal fishing programs in the post-World War II period encouraged labor based out of American Sāmoa to catch and can one-third of all tuna for United States consumption until 2009. Labeled "Made in the USA," this commodity was sometimes caught by non-U.S. regulated ships, produced under labor standards far below continental U.S. minimum wage and maximum work hours, entered U.S. jurisdiction tax free, and was sometimes caught by non-U.S. regulated ships. The second half of the book explores the tensions between indigenous and U.S. federal government environmental goals and ecology programs. Whether creating the largest National Marine Sanctuary under U.S. jurisdiction or collecting basic data on local fishing, initiatives that balanced western-based and native expectations for respectful community relationships and appropriate government programs fared better than those that did not acknowledge the positionality of all groups involved. Balancing the Tides demonstrates how western-style economics, policymaking, and knowledge building imposed by the U.S. federal government have been infused into the daily lives of American Sāmoans. American colonial efforts to protect natural resources intersect with indigenous insistence on adhering to customary principles of respect, reciprocity, and native rights in complicated ways. Experiences and lessons learned from these case studies provide insight into other tensions between colonial governments and indigenous peoples engaging in environmental and marine-based policymaking across the Pacific and the globe. Poblete's study connects the U.S.-American Sāmoa colonial relationship to global overfishing, world consumption patterns, the for-profit fishing industry, international environmental movements and studies, as well as native experiences and indigenous rights"-- ER -