By 2024, StarKist Sāmoa had leased the land from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Samoa–Pago Pago and plans to develop the site for housing guest workers.

A year later, Van Camp Seafood Company — a division of Ralston-Purina at the time — acquired the facility, rebranding it as Chicken of the Sea in 1976.

Thai Union Group took over Chicken of the Sea in 2000, but after implementing three federally mandated wage increases within two years, the production line was closed in 2009.

Subsequently, in April 2015, the Italian firm Tri Marine, the third-largest seafood provider in the United States, opened a cannery at the same Atu'u location.

[5] In 2002, traditional leaders in Atuʻu imposed a nightly curfew to combat social problems due to the number of nightclubs.