The American Samoa government is working with StarKist Samoa to ease the critical worker shortage at the cannery. Starkist is the territory's largest private employer, and the worker shortage is impacting the company's ability to keep up with global demand. Our correspondent said StarKist Samoa had faced a shortage of workers, especially fish cleaners since mid 2020, and it just got worse at the beginning of this year. StarKist Samoa last week launched a new advertising campaign saying that its hiring fish cleaners and special skilled workers. The advertisement also said in Samoan that if the person's Immigration ID had expired StarKist would work with the American Samoa Immigration Office on this issue.