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This project adopted an open protocol for data collection, meaning that we tried to remain asunstructured and participatory as possible. Our team began with had three women, less than aperfect gender balance, but the nature of our interviews did not preclude men from gettingimportant data. Because we had a range of ages, and the views of younger women were moreaccessible to our younger men participants, this was largely overcome. In addition, our teamwas socially broad, ranging from settlement kids to a soldier, a media figure, and HELPResources employees. While the team had experience studying another fish factory, and thus weunderstood what we thought we needed to know, the presence of our Wewak-based volunteerssignificantly shaped the direction and substance of our interviews. We began with a list ofquestions for landowners, and a list for factory workers, which formed the basis of semistructuredinterviews. We also began with a list of people/departments to query, which wedivided amongst us; and from these we followed up on suggested names and groups to question.Every Wednesday and Sunday afternoon were our group debriefings, while the group of teamleaders, from Nancy Sullivan, Ltd., debriefed daily because we were housed together.Scheduled meetings and interviews25 June 25-3 July Workshop4 Meni Village/Muschu island/ Stanley Kaus/Alex Anis5 Market interviews6 Nuigo Settlement/Team meeting7 Kaunum family, Meni Village/ Augustin Wombi/Kreer Market Camp8 Alex Numbudu/Serah Mambu/Nuigo Settlement9 Augustin Numbia/Marienberg10 Market interviews/Team meeting11 Sister Celine, Catholic Health Resources/Joe Andi12 Hawain meeting/ Kapmandu Service Station /Melisa Kara/ Patrick Ginimbo/Elijah Rusa/Robin Karo/Robert keme, Michael Saulep13 Maryline/ Gertrude Baiso/ Francis Waviki/Market interviews/ Team meeting14 Bruce Samban/ Partin Patikec/Teresa Nawape/Mangau,Suk, Bonam and Mosaninterviews/ESIA, Bismark and Nusa Group interviews15 Yawasoro/Saure/ESIA Landowners meeting /Visit to SST /Jacline/MareinbergStation/Koiken Village16 Brother Bertrand Webster/ Joe Salle17 Yawasoro/Saure/ESIA and Saure Landowners meeting18 Market interviews19 Andrew Wanyia /Paul Loff20 Elijah Nawapi/ Raymond Kondang/Paul Samore/ Herman Samore/Jeves Hoibi/Jacob Elaxo21 Kreer Village, Meni Village22 Nuigo Settlement23 Kreer Village24 Team meeting25 Fishermen interviews26 Fishermen interviews27 Team meetingPartial list of interviewees:Petrus SagomDaul WesupKearly SurumWillie SangiLawrence HervinguAlex SowengBrain SowengPius HuipiaFrancis KruferLuke PimiGertrude BAlex Numbudu18
Stanley Kaus, MushuIslandPaul LoffElijah NawapiRichard on Nuigo StreetRaymond KondangCarl KaiwooPeter KumunClement MommoNick ArtekainNick SonengJanuarius DamenBenedict BinusSimith TamauTom SaumaEnoch WapoJames BabiSolomon PimiKenneth DavidPhilip SamaBruno BoamerGonzaga HervinguFrancis WarasinMartin PatikecKreer Development CorpEast Sepik IslandersAssoc.f. IntroductionJohn NiabauPhilip TeresangHerman KabaiFrancis WarasinBro. Herman BoyekBruce SambanPaul SamoreHerman SamoreJeves HoibiJacob ElaxoStanley KausPhilip—Kreer VillageKenneth YarongJoshua PameIsaac KuritDanny BaikAlex AmisPatrick Ginimbo,WaterboardFrances WarrenSeth BoalaVincent WarisanBonny HairokuNusa Business GroupBismark FisheriesCompanyEast Sepik Fishers Assoc.Moses MaruAnna AlberthMarylineLelita NSandra KJeffrey YanRebecca NalawagiPaul SimbagoFelix MaiwaBetty NapiJackline XMilisa KaraFrancisca WavikiTresea NawapeKapmandu Service StationSerah MFrances SumanupIan BoatwoodPhilomena NauraMichael Saulep, SRDCAndrew WanyiaHerman KabaiKoikau Devel. Ltd.Saure Landowner CorpKwehau Devel.Ltd.Something smells fishy in Wewak. Ever since February 2004, people in most parts of Wewaktown have been holding their nose whenever the wind blows from the new tuna lioning factoryon the main wharf. South Seas Tuna (SST) is a Taiwanese-owned business that skins and boneslocal skipjack and yellow fin tuna for export to overseas canneries and buyers. Employingroughly 1600 mostly Sepik people, and sitting on what once was Kreer tribe swamp land, thefactory has been known to the town mainly for emitting a putrid smell that seems to waftsacross different neighbourhoods according to shifts of the wind. Not just occasional, it is alingering odour that increases and diminishes every day. But why the loining plant is there onthe town site, and not at its original out-of-town location, and who actually benefits from itspresence, has begun to stir conversation. In fact, SST has begun to ‘smell fishy’ for some inWewak in more than one way. With recent rumours about new canneries to be introduced, it’s agood time to look closely at this fishy business of tuna loining in Wewak.Back in 2000 when the plan was introduced to the general public of a tuna loinery for Wewak,most people were well disposed to the idea. After all, the East Sepik Province has beenrelatively underdeveloped, as the home province of the country’s founding father, Sir MichaelSomare. Not much wage employment was available, and the outer residential sections badlyneeded infrastructure. The idea that a plant would be established somewhere near town, andwould bring with it jobs, possibly new roads, spin off businesses for landowners in transportand catering, and even the growth of new roadside markets, all sounded good. Villagers and19
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Responses to Consent Condition Exce
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never cleaned fish before, that was
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Philomena Naura: “The smell aroun
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There is no covering to the oxidizi
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duties on one of the ships offloadi
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on the side of the fishing vessel.
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The fishery observer told us that i
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Speaking of prostitution on fishing
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and if any major disruptions occur
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Most of us here are very unfortunat
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The husband of the woman employed a
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Thomas Nigints was one of the few p
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doing it, it’s going to be over o
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Landowners are also deeply disturbe
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places or settlement where they are
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in the revenue, so when the opportu
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And as soon as they’d finished th
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There is no legal case as yet with
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owns the land legally and therefore
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There is still need to recruit more
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In regard to the production, by the
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The company invited interested peop
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strategy is very well used by forei
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employees and those whose work requ
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The present Human Resource Manager
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working gear? In my section I wear
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working for a whole first week with
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Serah from Manam island, married wi
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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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export processing zones and then in
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then men’s. Usually they’re exc
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The WWF consultant also notes that
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of a company like SST cannot be pla
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