SUBCOMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFFAIRS, OCEANS AND WILDLIFE
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
2:00 p.m.

• Archived hearing webcast
• Official hearing transcript

LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON:

• H.R. 3583 (Faleomavaega), To provide for a subsidy to sellers and buyers of fish directly delivered to American Samoa from vessels with United States fisheries endorsements that manufacture for the United States.  "American Samoa Protection of Industry, Resources and Employment Act"

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I

The Honorable Togiola T.A. Tulafono
Governor of American Samoa

Nikolao Pula
Director, Office of Insular Affairs
Department of the Interior

Panel II

Donald Binotto
President & CEO
StarKist Co.

John Sawyer
Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing
Chicken of the Sea International

Chris Lischewski
President & CEO
Bumble Bee Foods, LLC

Panel III

Joe Hamby
Managing Director
Tri-Marine Global Tuna Supply

James P. Walsh
Legal Counsel
South Pacific Tuna Corporation

Renato Curto
President
Cape Fisheries, LLC

Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Senior Fellow and Director 
Center for Employment Policy
Hudson Institute