{"id":40286,"date":"2022-01-04T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/its-a-mystery-for-us-the-puzzling-death-at-sea-of-a-tongan-fisheries-observer"},"modified":"2022-01-04T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:00:01","slug":"its-a-mystery-for-us-the-puzzling-death-at-sea-of-a-tongan-fisheries-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40286","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a mystery for us\u2019: the puzzling death at sea of a Tongan fisheries observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Latu was found dead in his berth \u2013 one of numerous deaths of monitors who ensure fishing boats follow the rules<\/p>\n<p>On the morning of Monday 27 September, a crew member on board the Hsinlong 1 fishing vessel went to fetch his friend Arnold Latu for breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Latu, in his mid-30s, was the monitoring officer of the Chinese-owned, Fiji-flagged vessel, employed by the Tongan government to check that the amount of fish caught on its three-week voyage was legal and correctly recorded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/its-a-mystery-for-us-the-puzzling-death-at-sea-of-a-tongan-fisheries-observer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Latu was found dead in his berth \u2013 one of numerous deaths of monitors who ensure fishing boats follow the rulesOn the morning of Monday 27 September, a crew member on board the Hsinlong 1 fishing vessel went to fetch his friend Arnold Latu for b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1019,874,280,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fishing","category-pacific-islands","category-tonga","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40287,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40286\/revisions\/40287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}