The command from USCGC Joseph Gerczak (WPC 1126) spent time with peers on HMNZS Otago (P148) discussing mission, challenges and comparing shipboard life in the region while in American Samoa Aug. 5, 2019. The Gerczak and Otago crews are in the region combating illegal fishing, a part of promoting maritime governance and a rules based international order that is essential to a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Sara Muir/Released)