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Our conclusion can only be that these women are sacrificing viable livelihoods for theopportunity to work in a wage-earning capacity, believing a pay packet to be the superior formof income. Some women in outlying settlements were, indeed, spending more on theirtransportation to and from the factory than they actually brought home in a fornight. It wasn’tlong before these workers simply didn’t return, which led company management to believe thatSepik women have a general problem with attendance, a lack of commitment or follow-throughon the job. Inevitably, this reaffirmed the original assumptions about the workforce andbolstered the management’s sense of pride that they were indeed training the Wewak people tolearn better workplace habits, molding a responsible workforce out of what had once been anidle, perhaps even social lax, urban population.One of our researchers was also told by a hospital employee (a PNG woman in fact) that the600-800 women working in the factory at any shift is socially beneficial because it lowers ratesof prostitution in town. After all, what else would these women be doing if they weren’t loiningfish?q. Fishing vesselsDespite the suggestion above, most prostitution in the the fishing industry occurs in and aroundthe fishing vessels, where women are lured aboard by workers wanting to trade sex for cigarettes,liquor and, most ironically, bycatch fish. Whereas in Madang we found a regular market has beenestablished by local women selling fruits and vegetables to these ships, in Wewak this is not quiteas institutionalized, and women are more likely to board these ships for sex than garden sales.Fishing vessels are the locus of most complainst about the industry, as vehicles by whichpeople, cargo and disease can be trafficked across national boundaries with relative impunity.For this reason it is commonly preferred that the crew of fishing vessels remain offshore fromthe country where they are working. Recall, for example, the news report acited above about anFCF fishing boat mutiny:Shi Lei, 21, has been in U.S. custody since his arrest March 21 on suspicion of killing thetwo men during an argument aboard the Full Means 2 while the vessel was in internationalwaters. The first mate's body was found in the ship's freezer; the captain's body had beenthrown overboard… Shi and other crew members also have said they were abused andtreated poorly aboard the ship, according to Byrne. According to a report by the AustraliabasedInternational Commission on Shipping, tens of thousands of seafarers on 10 percentto 15 percent of the world's ships work in slave-like conditions, logging long hours for littleor no pay and meager rations. The crew of the Full Means 2 was Chinese. The ship wasoperated by FCF Fishery Co., which is based in Taiwan and owned by the captain's father.It is certainly true that the presence of the loining factory has neither diminished or increasedthe number of fishing vessels in the bay, but the plans for more factories certainly raises thethreat of overfishing, and a small flood of foreign fishermen in Wewak’s waters.On 21 July 2005 researchers Daniel and Rex visited the fishing vessels Saltlake and Tai Shuh:Their notes are as follow:We wanted to make an appointment to interview the Fisheries Inspector. Unfortunately, hewas not available so we went over to see some Asian crewmen being disembarked at thejetty behind the Wewak Customs Office. I was introduced to Rex who is a relative ofDaniel. Rex works as an Observer on fishing vessels. He just arrived from one of his shift102
duties on one of the ships offloading fish on to a mother boat. He had with his a 25 kg bagthat contained some fish (tuna) from the fishing vessels. He asked two of his male relativeswaiting for him on the jetty to take the fish home. Then he swore harshly to them when oneof them tried to lift the bag and put it on his shoulders. He warned them to hide the fish andmake sure no one sees them all the way home. Rex had another small bag that had a fishabout 5 kg inside and dropped it outside the Fishery Office when we met Dennis. He toldDennis that he’d brought it for him. Dennis thanked him and asked one of his relatives totake the fish home.We were then introduced to Dennis Yehilomo, the Senior Observer, Wewak Desk. Dennisworks in the position of a Senior Fishery Observer overlooking the operations in Wewak.He is a pioneer student for Observer program introduced in 1994.Their main responsibilityis to monitor all fishing vessels operating under the licenses issued by the NFA and if theyfail to produce any licenses they would report them to the NFA headquarters in PortMoresby who then panelize them. They make sure that all fishing operators work within therules and regulations set by NFA as condition. If they are not followed they report and makerecommendations for their fishing licenses to be revoked.We had an informal chat and asked him if we could record our conversations and he willingagreed. After the interview with him and another one of his Observer officers we asked forany opportunity to visit fish transshipment from a fishing vessel to a mother boat. Dennisagreed to our request and tried several times to contact the PNG Harbors Board to get aclearance for us to visit with an Observer. After several attempts he referred us to ChaukaPormat who works with the Sepik Coastal Agencies. I explained to him of our interest tosee who fishing vessels transfer their catch to the mother boat. I explained to him my needto see the fish transshipment as I am doing a case study on the SSTC plant and would needto see the process from the start. He was satisfied and drove us to the Sepik CoastalAgencies Head office where we met the Manager Mr Mathew ______ . He inquired of ourvisit and I explained our need to see fish transshipment. He agreed and quickly wrote anendorsement letter introducing us to the PNG Harbors Board Port Manger Wewak. Heapproved our request and asked us to go back to the Sepik Coastal Agencies Office andshow his note of approval to the Manager.When we did it was about 2 PM and no boat was going to the vessels were the fishtransshipment was going on. Chauka Pormat told us to come back 8.00 AM the next day.We thanked him and came back home.Thursday 21 July 2005103
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This project adopted an open protoc
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public figures who had seen RD Tuna
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suddenly costs the government more
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problems of the poor.’ He pledges
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scores of landowner groups who regi
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areas…There were promises of new
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might say today. This is certainly
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During the 1950’s over 860,000 co
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of reorientation of focus and direc
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title, sensu the Windjammer, is ‘
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Blue Water Tuna is a private PNG co
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The color of the sea has changed. F
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Donald Jacob, Catrans fuel distribu
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Kapmandu Service station. Did South
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then men’s. Usually they’re exc
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of a company like SST cannot be pla
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low income) will have an impact in
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This office recommends that, since
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