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Massive marlins and plentiful yellowfin steal the show at Pohnpei Fishing Club event By Bill Jaynes The Kaselehlie Press June 29, 2024 Pohnpei—Three good-sized marlin were boated during the third tournament of the Pohnpei Fishing Club on Saturday. Westcott Panuelo landed a monstrous 334.8-pound marlin, winning the $1,000 first prize in the big fish category. His catch was followed by a 284.6-pound blue marlin landed by Wilmar Aquino, who won the $600 second-place prize. The third-place $400 prize was awarded for a marlin just qualifying at 103.4 pounds, caught by Bernolina Hedson. It was a beautiful day for fishing, and the catches of the 18 boats that signed up to participate in the tournament showed it. Apparently, yellowfin tuna were running, with some boats single-handedly taking as many as 14 yellowfin ranging in size from 40 to 80 pounds.
Fourth place in the big fish category went to Nile Panuelo with an 80.2-pound yellowfin. That prize was $250. The ubiquitous and prolific Marvey Spencer Jr. took the $200 fifth prize for a 67.2-pound yellowfin. Click here for continuation on page 5
FSM again receives Tier 2 rating for Anti-Human Trafficking efforts, U.S. State Department report says By Bill Jaynes The Kaselehlie Press June 30, 2024 Washington D.C.— "Human trafficking is a stain on the conscience of our society. It fuels crime, corruption, and violence. It distorts our economies and harms our workers. And it violates the fundamental right of all people to be free,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the opening words of this year’s Trafficking in Persons Report. “Around the globe, an estimated 27 million people are exploited for labor, services, and commercial sex. Through force, fraud, and coercion, they are made to toil in fields and factories, in restaurants and residences. Traffickers prey on some of the world’s most marginalized and vulnerable individuals – profiting from their plight.”
Each year, the U.S. State Department, in an effort to build global partnerships to eventually eliminate the crime of human trafficking, rates individual nations’ efforts to combat the crime and to support the victims of it—the “3P Paradigm” of prevention, protection, and prosecution. This year, the theme for the report is technology and how it can be used to combat human trafficking through sharing information, providing support services for victims, aiding in prosecution and investigation efforts, and identifying tech companies. According to the United Nations, “Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit. Men, women and
children of all ages and from all backgrounds can become victims of this crime, which occurs in every region of the world.” A victim need not be physically transported from one location to another for the crime to fall within the definition of human Secretary Blinken speaking during the release of TIP trafficking. In point of Report 2024 fact, a victim can even be trafficked in their own home or in that Tier 2 has been described as something of loved ones. equivalent to a “C” grade in school. It indicates that a country does not fully The State Department ranks the meet the minimum standards for the Human Trafficking prevention efforts elimination of trafficking but is making of individual countries on a three-tier significant efforts to do so. A Tier 1 rating system. Tier 3 is essentially a rating is given to a country that meets all failing grade indicating that a country is of the requirements for the elimination making little to no effort to prevent or contain the crime or support its victims. Click here for continuation on page 4