Na taua e le Peresetene o Palau e faʻapea, o lana filifiliga e faʻalauiloa lona sone faʻapitoa o le tamaoaiga o le atunuʻu, o le a fesoasoani lea i tagata uma ma le itu tau turisi a Palau.
I le saunoaga a le Fono Tele a Malo Aufaatasi, na faalauiloa ai e Johnson Toribiong le vaega atoa o lona Exclusive Economic Zone, o se vaega e 629 afe sikuea kilomita, pe tusa foi o le lapoʻa o Farani o se "malu malu," lea o le a faasa uma ai fagotaga malie.
Na taua e Peresetene Toribiong lona faamoemoe o isi malo o le a mulimuli i le palau a Palau i le faamutaina o le fagogotaina, fasimea malie ma fagotaga matautia.
“Ua ou mauaina le anoanoaʻi o tusi [mai] i le lalolagi atoa, e aofia ai le alo o Jacques Cousteau o loʻo fai mai ia te aʻu e puipui malie. Aua o le tasi senatoa na ia faʻauluina se tulafono e faʻatulafono ai le fagotaga malie i Palau ma o lena tulafono na fasiotia ina ua maeʻa le tele o faʻatagaina. Ma talu ai lena, o le taua o malie i le siosiomaga ma ia tatou turisi matata, scuba diving, na taufaamatau e tamaʻiʻa. O lea ou te talitonu o le mea na ou faia e le gata ina ia fesoasoani ai i tagata soifua ae ia fesoasoani ai foi i le tatou atinae tau turisi. ”
Na taʻua e le Peresetene o Johnson Toribiong, o le soona faʻaaoga o le soʻona fagotaina, ua le maua ai e tagata o le Pasefika a latou mea totino, meaʻai ma o le a faʻaleagaina ai le tamaoaiga o lenei itulagi.
OA MEA E AVEA MAI LENEI TUSI:
- In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Johnson Toribiong declared his country's entire Exclusive Economic Zone, an area of 629 thousand square kilometers, or roughly the size of France as a “shark sanctuary,”.
- President Johnson Toribiong says reckless overfishing is depriving the people of the Pacific of their livelihoods, food and will be the ruin of the region's economic well-being.
- Because one senator introduced a bill to legalise the shark fishing in Palau and that bill was killed after much lobbying.
