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3. Local fishermen:Augustin, male, 20 years old. Not working in any way. I earn my living by fishing from the sea.I catch enough for consumption every day, but sometimes I trade with the Chinese from theship. I trade ripe bananas, pawpaw, kina shell and also bunches of brus tobaccos for things likefish, hardstuff (alcohol), white smoke (imported cigarettes) and also pornography CD andmagazines. Do the Chinese ask for drugs? Yes of course they ask for drugs (marijuana) to tradefor hard stuff. What happens when you don’t have drugs to trade with them? I used to be forcedby the Chinese to sell sex in order to get what I want from the Chinese on the ship.I used to get a lot of fish when the factory was not built but I get less fish than before. I catchfish by using fishing lines and sometimes I trade with the fishing boat from the sea. I trade fruitsand sometimes I sell sex to get fish, hot stuff and Asian smokes. I was influenced by the womenand girls to sell sex. There are five teenage girls going with me, three are 16 and the other twoare between 17 and 18. My parents are passed away and I have been living with my big brotherin Nuigo settlement. My brother’s treatment to me is okay but his wife does not treat me verywell. When I don’t contribute much to the family my brother gets cross with me. Therefore I amselling sex for extra things for our living. There’s no other young men [doing this], only myself.The five teenage girls are also selling sex for hot stuff, fish and Asian smoke.Isaac Paul .Age 20. Location: Kairuru Boat Catching Beach (in front of the Fishery Office).Isaac is young male skipper of a 40 horse powered motor boat owned by his village councilor.He is from Kairuru Island.I have been away from home for some times living in Enga Province in the Highlands since2000. This year I am back in the village and many things have changed. One of the big changesI noticed at home is the pollution by foreign objects that are lying around our beach. You talkabout plastic bag, empty cans of foreign drinks, and other others. I don’t know where they comefrom but people at home say that they come from the foreign fishing vessels anchored totransfer fish to mother boats. Another major complain is the shortage of fish. Some very goodfishermen on the Island are complaining of the strange scenario. The usual places were fishwere plentiful are no longer, especially, alone the reef and coral where fish feed. For somemysterious reasons we are not seeing fish. Also people now tend to go far and deeper into theocean to find fish. Our best guess for this problem is that the Asian fishing boats have eithercaught all the fish or have chased away the fish by their continuous going back and forth. Boththe fish and the people are never used to fishing boats and other big ocean liners frequentingWewak, so they are afraid. People also complain that the sea is colder and hard for them to findthe usual fishes. It could be influenced by some natural climatic changes or the trespassing ofthe big ships but whatever it is. It has definitely affected the life on the island.156
The color of the sea has changed. From time to time you will see rainbow refection on the sea.We see oil all around the island and many times people who swim get some itchy skin anddevelop little boil looking thing. I have no experience myself but it occurred to many youngchildren maybe because they have young tender skin. There are lot of complains reported to thevillage councilor but I don’t think he will do something about it chiefly because he have no ideato raise the issue to the relevant authorities. The tuna factory is too big a company for us littlepeople in the village to fight them. The people in the village told us about some environmentalpeople coming from Moresby a year or two ago and did some survey on the island the water butwe have not heard from them to day.One of the effects of oil I see dead fishes alone the shore. Sometimes we saw many dead fishfloating around and drew our on conclusion that it must have been from the by-catch dumped bythe fishing vessels but it could be from oil discharged by the ships. People especially the fisheryofficers tell us that vessels are not allowed to discharge oil but who is there all the time tomonitor such activities all the time. It is possible anything could happen. They could easily offerbribes to the observers or the guards and do whatever they want to do. Asians are very good inall the dirty tricks available on earth.The dead fish and other waste SSTC dumped into the sea have attracted a lot of sharks near ourshores. Many people have complained they have seen all kind of sharks close to the reef. That isunusual place where sharks are never before seen often but now many reported seen sharks andit’s a danger for us. We are sea people- our daily livings depend on the marine resources andsuch stories scare people from going out to fish. I have seen two strange sharks some monthsago as I went to dive alone the reef. I have never before seen such sharks in my life. One ofthem looked like a chopper.Sharks come 100 meters from the shore. This is very shallow for big sharks but for somestrange reason they come. People are heavily warned to take precaution when going out to thesea and this is disturbing the normal conscious of the people and life. The fear of encounteringsharks certainly has some bearing on their confidence of going out to the deep sea for. This isdisturbing our normal lives.Now the fear people have is that continuous dumping of waste from the tuna plant would kill ordestroy our reefs and corals. They are like our garden and if they die especially women willhave difficulty fishing because they fish mainly alone the reefs and corals. The fishery officialtold the people before that the dumplings were environmentally friendly. We don’t trust thembecause it possible that fish and marine live can develop some poison from feeding on it andeventually the people eat the fish and die.Paul Mangoro, age 36, from Nuigo settlement. I have been working on the ship for four yearsfrom 2000 to 2004. I have been working as a policeman on the ship. They catch yuna, yellowfin, shark, rainbow runner, and many more kinds of fish. They tale yellowfin and skipjack intothe factory, 70 to 90 tonnes of fish. The fish is exported to japan, Bangkok, Taiwan and China.500 to 700 tonnes of fish are exported. The rejected fish are dumped in the sea between Wewakand manus. Yes, women exchange fruits for fish and also sell sex or fish, money and hot stuff.They are between ages 30 and 37 years. They are doing this on Korean, Taiwan, Philippines andPNG ships.Daniel Amarie notes on 27.7.05 visit to fishing vessel :During my observation on the fishingboats, apart from tuna, there are also other fishes caught like rainbow runners, trigger fish,157
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‘development’ projects will be
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whole concept of MSY; the problem o
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noted most reasonably that the skil
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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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But it is the provincial government
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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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meters out from its original size,
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The Offshore Masters is going to be
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never cleaned fish before, that was
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Philomena Naura: “The smell aroun
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duties on one of the ships offloadi
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