Coral reef management for small islands: 5-year plan for American Samoa
American Samoa Coral Reef Task Force. 1999. Coral reef management for small islands: 5-year plan for American Samoa. American Samoa Coral Reef Task Force. Pago Pago, AS
In May 1999, the American Samoa Coral Reef Task Force convened a workshop to develop a 5-year plan for coral reef management in the territory. The group of local agencies, the public, and specialists from off-island reviewed coral reef issues from a small-island perspective and focused on three topics of local concern: (1) Are reef resources being overfished?, (2) How should reef "health" be monitored?, and (3) How much impact does existing water quality have on reef resources? Principal conclusions were that local reefs were already overfished, and that water quality improvements in Pago Pago Harbor should continue.