OPINION 6A T HE D AILY A STORIAN Founded in 1873 STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager CARL EARL, Systems Manager JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager SAMANTHA MCLAREN, Circulation Manager Englund Marine is a community asset A 70-year-old business like Englund Marine is a boon to a small town such as Astoria. Edward Stratton chronicled Englund’s anniversary celebration in our Tuesday edition. Relatively few family EXVLQHVVHV PRYH SDVW WKHLU ¿UVW generation. Englund Marine is in its third generation of family owners. Over seven decades, the Englunds have been smart, agile managers. As Stratton reported, Englund Marine has moved well beyond Astoria’s boundaries, with ORFDWLRQVXSDQGGRZQWKH3DFL¿F Coast as well as inland. Englund employs 126 companywide. There is an erroneous image that ¿VKLQJDQG¿VKSURFHVVLQJDUHG\LQJ industries. It is true there are fewer processors in Astoria than there were in 1970, for instance. But those that remain are healthy. And these VXUYLYRUV DUH E\ GH¿QLWLRQ TXLWH intelligent in how they operate. Englund Marine’s health is directly related to the health of the FRDVWZLGH ¿VKLQJ LQGXVWU\:KHQ Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber stupidly and unilaterally curtailed JLOOQHW ¿VKLQJ RQ WKH ORZHU Columbia, Englund felt the pain of its longtime customers who ceased to invest in their boats. Kitzhaber’s LJQRUDQFH UHÀHFWV WKH P\RSLF urban perspective on the natural resources economy. U Englund and other successful businesses here realize that economic GLYHUVLW\LVHVVHQWLDO:HDOODSSUHFLDWH the sports fishermen who spend money here and bring enthusiasm to local streets and waters. But the Englunds have a front-row seat from which to observe how commercial fishing dollars also circulate through the community, making house payments and paying grocery bills for families that may never have the luxury of casting a fly line or trolling from the deck of a charter boat. The virtue of local business ownership is the contribution it makes to community causes. The Englunds typify that. Jon Englund did a good job on the Oregon Fish DQG :LOGOLIH &RPPLVVLRQ EHIRUH Kitzhaber apparently decided our area doesn’t deserve a voice in resource management, leaving our VHDWXQ¿OOHGVLQFH Seventy years is a great achievement. Attaining another ZLOO UHTXLUH QRW RQO\ VPDUW and rugged entrepreneurial skills, but also attitudes in Salem and :DVKLQJWRQ '& WKDW VXSSRUW small businesses and responsible use of natural resources. Tribes should get control of sea lions .S. Reps. Kurt Schrader, '2UH DQG -DLPH +HUUHUD %HXWOHU5:DVKDUHWDNLQJDQRWKHU shot at trying to pass legislation in limbo since 2011 to support tribal efforts on behalf of salmon. First introduced by now-retired (DVWHUQ:DVKLQJWRQ&RQJUHVVPDQ 'RF +DVWLQJV WKH (QGDQJHUHG Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act acknowledges the reality that California sea lions have fully rebounded from threat of extinction, while an excess of marine mammals in a few locations impedes the expensive recovery of Columbia River salmon. )HZ FLWL]HQV RI WKH 3DFL¿F Northwest begrudge sea lions their place in the natural world. This willingness to co-exist is probably strongest among members of Indian tribes, who shared the environment with marine mammals for thousands of years. They hunted sea lions, but in sustainable ways. They competed with them for salmon but there is nothing to suggest they tried to annihilate them. The proposed law would place Northwest treaty tribes on par with the states of Oregon and :DVKLQJWRQ LQ WHUPV RI EHLQJ able to kill individual sea lions that persistently gobble returning salmon in bottlenecks such as WKH ZDWHUV EHORZ ¿VK ODGGHUV ,W would be far from a blank check to slaughter sea lions and harbor seals. ,W UHTXLUHV WULEDO PDQDJHUV WR ¿UVW try physically removing salmon gluttons before escalating to lethal measures, with training by the U.S. )LVK DQG :LOGOLIH 6HUYLFH 7KH :DUP 6SULQJV 8PDWLOOD