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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1955Vol. XXV, No. 9

Pagopago Fish Cannery

p. 115 · Read in the full issue

Hard at Work

AFTER two months of packing fish and preparing fish meal, the Van Camp Sea Food Co., at Pagopago, stopped active opera tion on March 1 for a week. The machines were overhauled for the next loads, due in mid-March Two of the Japanese fishing vessels have been released. Taiyo Maru sailed February 2 for Japan.

This was the ship whose captain was fatally attacked by a 13-ft shark in Pagopago Bay in January. Nissho Maru left for Japan on February 26.