Traditional protection proves more successful for clams in American Samoa

Traditional protection proves more successful for clams in American Samoa

Here’s Sonam Lama Hyolmo at Mongaybay covering a recent article that found that in American Samoa, traditional village-based protections and remote sites had the highest density of giant clams — outperforming federally designated no-take zones in one case. For coastal Indigenous communities in American Samoa, giant clams are deeply rooted in fa‘a Sāmoa (the Samoan way of life) and local food systems. According to the findings of a study publish…