“…early period records from Ofu Village, Va‘oto, To‘aga and Vaiopi) to those harvested today by modern subsistence fishers in the region, which is despite the probable wide‐scale coastal landscape evolution that has occurred over the past ∼2700 years. While additional archaeological fish bone records are still required for the Manu‘a Group (but see Morrison & Addison, 2009; Rieth & Morrison, 2017 for Tutuila Island), particularly for the past ∼1500 years due to low sample size, outcomes based on existing early period records are consistent with a continuation or degree of stability rather than a change in the range of species available for exploitation today as in the past. This suggests that there were no adverse impacts to the marine fishery through time as also supported by earlier studies in the region (Craig et al ., 2008; Sabater & Carroll, 2009), although we also note the insufficiency of available archaeologically derived faunal records for reaching firm conclusions about whether the fishery was sustainably exploited over the past ∼2700 years.…”