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RMI flagged Chinese fishing vessel rescues 22 crew members of sinking CFC owned vessel CFC CEO Marko Kamber said that Captain Marijo Radulic, captain of the vessel, called him at 2:00 PM Guam time on April 13 to inform him that generator number two aboard the vessel April 15, 2024 Tuvalu—Yesterday, a Chinese-operated and Marshall Islands-flagged had caught fire. Kamber notified the Rescue fishing vessel, the FV Jin Hui, owned by Pan Pacific Foods, rescued the Coordination Centers in Honolulu and Fiji to 22 crew members of the FSM-based FV Marielle before the vessel sank alert the US Coast Guard. 150 miles west of Funafuti, Tuvalu. The Captain of the CFC FV Nanmadol, ported According to Giff Johnson, Editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and contributor to Radio New Zealand, who broke the story, the FV Marielle, one of four owned and operated by Pohnpei-based Caroline Fisheries Corporation (CFC), was 57 years old and built in 1967 in British Columbia. By Bill Jaynes The Kaselehlie Press
The company that came to the rescue of the FV Marielle was Pan Pacific Foods of Majuro, which operates six Marshall Islands-flagged purse seine vessels. Pictured is Jin Hui No. 1, a sister vessel to the Jin Hui 18, which rescued the 22 fishermen in Tuvalu waters Sunday morning. Photo: Karen Earnshaw.
in Pohnpei, informed Kamber that they had lost contact with the FV Marielle due to the Marielle’s loss of the generator. The Nanmadol captain mentioned that the automatic identification system (AIS), a system that allows mariners to track other vessels, showed that the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel, the FV Unaak, was somewhat
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After putting out a distress call Saturday late afternoon, the 22 crew of the FV Marielle abandoned ship and got into this skiff to wait for rescue. They are shown as they were about to be rescued by the Jin Hui 18 fishing vessel early Sunday morning. Photo: Jin Hui 18.
Pohnpei Governor pledges transparency and accountability in exclusive interview By Bill Jaynes The Kaselehlie Press April 12, 2024
Pohnpei—Pohnpei’s Governor Stevenson A. Joseph has been a busy man indeed since he took office in November of last year. It has taken some time to organize, but Governor Joseph is the first Pohnpei State Governor to have ever consented to a oneon-one interview with The Kaselehlie Press.
for transparency, that press release was issued later that afternoon and appears in this issue of the newspaper.
We sat down with him in his office this morning. Fresh from a meeting with his Resources and Development Department about a new marina project for local fishers, he was excited. “I think that’s going to be really good,” he said and promised that there would be a press release about the project that would be released that day.
“Well, they have to be,” he said. “That’s going to be a directive for everyone once all my cabinet positions are completed. I will sit down with them and make sure. What they’re directed to do, they must comply. If they don’t like it then they can step out.”
Transparency a priority True to his word and his campaign promises
We asked him if his cabinet members and staff members were also committed to transparency on the same level.
We pointed out that in our experience so far, it hadn’t been universally true and pointed out some examples. He said that he would be having some conversations Click here for continuation on page 5