Group photo taken with Misili Fai'ai the Mayor of the village of Olosega Manu'a. Thanks to Sau Levao a representative working for the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources at Ta'u Manu'a and also to Carlo Caruso a representative from the National Park of American Samoa in Ofu for helping with the MPA Workshop for Ofu and Olosega.

Tafito Aitaoto, Lusila Minoneti and their recorder Kiso So'oto was assisting the Men's Group at the village of Ofu on the first day. The Men's Group came up with some threats to the marine environment such as; Technology. They mentioned that back in the days fishermen used dry coconut leaves (Sulu Aulama) as a flash light, but they mentioned that people can fish for 10 hours using the flash light, so people are overfishing. But back then fishermen only fish for 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on the dry coconut leaves or Sulu Aulama Light.

Selaina Tuimavave and Tepora Toliniu was assisting the women's group during the first day of the workshop. During the Historical Profile Activity women's from the village of Ofu mentioned some of the threats that they saw 10-20 years before that can affect the marine environment. They don't see some of the threats now days like people using Illegal Fishing methods such as Dynamite and Ava Niukini. Some other threats they mentioned were Sand Mining, Pollution (Trash), Natural Disasters and Oil Spill from boats and vessels that come to Ofu.

Maria Vaofanua and Lidwina Allen assisting the children from the village of Ofu Manu'a during the MPA Workshop that was held at Pita Ili's quest house. They were discussing threats to the Marine Environment at the village of Ofu. The community of Ofu was divided into 3 groups; Men's, Women's and the Youth, so Sione Lam Yuen Jr was the facilitator, Maria was assisting and Lidwina Allen was the recorder. This is the second day of the workshop and the first day we talked about the different Marine Resources that are found in the ocean of the village of Ofu with the Youth.