AMERICAN SAMOA FISHING MAP

Fishing Hot Spots

From Pago Pago Harbor around Tutuila's bays and headlands to Aunu'u, east to the remote Manu'a Islands, and south to South Bank. Tap any star or dot to see what it is and what to fish there.

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Parks & rules

Data rule: South Bank comes from the Marine Regions (VLIZ) gazetteer; it is the general center of a large feature, not a pinpoint, and its star says so. Harbors, points, bays, islands and ramps come from OpenStreetMap, and the protected areas come from the World Database on Protected Areas. Village marine areas listed as no-take and the Ofu Vaoto Marine Park are shown in solid red; the National Park of American Samoa and the other village marine areas are shown in dashed red, because fishing there follows their own rules. Any hot spot inside or right next to a no-fishing area was taken off the map. Every star shows its source when you tap it. BigJoe does not invent coordinates. The exact sources used on this map are listed under Map sources & checks below.
Select a Fishing Hot Spot on the map or from the list below.
★ Fishing Hot SpotBoat rampMarinaWreckObstructionRock (yellow = awash)Coral / rock bottomCanyonWeather/tide stationNo-fishing zone (solid red)Protected area, fishing with rules (dashed red)

Safety: these are planning references. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts and proper safety equipment before heading out.

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Month-by-month patterns, fish, ramps and rules for each water:

📘 American Samoa

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Fishing Hot Spots by area

Harbors, points, bays and South Bank. Tap one to fly to it on the map.

Tuna country in the South Pacific

American Samoa is the southernmost U.S. territory, and Pago Pago is one of the great tuna ports of the Pacific. Local boats troll the steep island slopes for yellowfin, skipjack, wahoo, mahimahi and blue marlin, and the banks like South Bank hold dogtooth tuna, giant trevally and deep bottomfish.

From shore, people fish the reef edges, points and bays for trevally (malauli) and jacks, especially at dawn and dusk.

Many villages manage their own marine areas, and some are closed to fishing. Fagatele Bay, part of the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa, is also closed to fishing. Ask the village before you fish its reef, and look for the red areas on the map.

BigJoe’s gear for American Samoa

What BigJoe would bring to fish these waters.

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Map sources & checks

Coverage
American Samoa. Mapped features come from public datasets and can be incomplete or out of date: a missing reef, ramp or wreck does not mean it is not there.
Map data
Hot spots
16 hot spots, each with its own source (tap any star to see it): OpenStreetMap mapped feature (15), Marine Regions gazetteer (1).
Protected areas
13 protected areas from the official list above, drawn in dashed red. Fishing rules inside them are set by the managing agency; check with them before you fish.
Chart layers (Charts button)
GEBCO ocean depth and OpenSeaMap buoys, lights and markers, plus official NOAA nautical charts in U.S. waters. GEBCO and OpenSeaMap are useful references, not official navigation charts.
Weather & tides
See Weather & Tides for this area: NOAA/NWS forecasts, NOAA buoys and NOAA Tides & Currents, with Open-Meteo models where NOAA has no station.
Dates
This page last updated October 15, 2026. Each dataset keeps its own retrieval date, shown above.

⚠️ Planning reference only, not for navigation. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts, and proper safety gear before heading out.

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