Tuna Fishing
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New Jap Fleet For
Samoan
THE Van Camp cannery at Pago Pago, American Samoa, was idle in September pending arrival of another Japanese tuna fleet to re place the one whose contract has expired.
The cannery has shipped a total of 7.000 cases of canned tuna to date; and a further 500 cases still await shipment overseas.
The plant manager, Mr. Paul Hedrick, suffered a cerebral haemorrhage recently and has been
wwi • the Pago Pa £° hospital where he is reported to be pro gressing satisfactorily. P Mi. Hubertus Van Pel, recentlv appointed fisheries adviser to the bouth Pacific Commission, has also been visiting American Samoa re cently investigating fishing condi tions from a commercial and sub sistence point of view.
The American wrecking team at Canton has now stripped two-thirds of the mam and B-decks of the wreck of the President Taylor and has in places cut away side plating to within two feet of the water line. The valuable bronze pro pellers have been shipped to Japan.