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STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher
LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor
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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
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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
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Coast as well as inland. Englund
employs 126 companywide.
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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
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intelligent in how they operate.
Englund Marine’s health is
directly related to the health of the
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Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber
stupidly and unilaterally curtailed
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Columbia, Englund felt the pain of
its longtime customers who ceased
to invest in their boats. Kitzhaber’s
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urban perspective on the natural
resources economy.
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businesses here realize that economic
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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
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Kitzhaber apparently decided our
area doesn’t deserve a voice in
resource management, leaving our
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Seventy years is a great
achievement. Attaining another
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and rugged entrepreneurial skills,
but also attitudes in Salem and
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small businesses and responsible
use of natural resources.
Tribes should get
control of sea lions
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shot at trying to pass legislation in
limbo since 2011 to support tribal
efforts on behalf of salmon.
First introduced by now-retired
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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.
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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
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able to kill individual sea lions
that persistently gobble returning
salmon in bottlenecks such as
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would be far from a blank check to
slaughter sea lions and harbor seals.
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try physically removing salmon
gluttons before escalating to lethal
measures, with training by the U.S.
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and Nez Perce tribes would be
granted the new authority.
Paul Lumley, executive director
of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission, is a tribal
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for environmental stewardship.
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hard to restore balance, wherever
we can, in a highly altered and
degraded river system. The
Marine Mammal Protection Act
and the Endangered Species Act
are thoughtful laws that need to be
reconciled with one another. The
Endangered Salmon and Fisheries
Predation Prevention Act honors
the underlying intent of both laws
while providing professional
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to manage both Protected and
Endangered Species.”
This endorsement is about as
good as it gets for natural resources
legislation.
The bill accelerates the process
for granting lethal take authority;
limits the cumulative level of
lethal take to 1 percent of annual
biological potential removal
level; further limits the lethal
take to 10 animals per permit
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of Commerce to report on any
additional legislation needed
to amend the Marine Mammal
Protection Act within two years.
Similar legislation has gone
nowhere in the previous two
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general get short shrift in the
nation’s capital. But we should
continue advocating for more
realistic and farsighted ways of
rebalancing the Columbia River
back to something more like it was.
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015
A winter pastime: setting
goals to last all year long
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inter is becoming my
favorite time of year the
longer I live on the North Coast.
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the agenda to speak.
The Cannon Beach council also
plans to:
• Conduct a citizen survey and
There’s something to be said for
create a strategic plan;
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sometimes I can put myself back de-
cades ago and imagine what it was continues to set his sights south of information technology manager:
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clean it up, extend the urban growth contracted out since the former direc-
tourist mecca.
Seaside historical author Gloria boundary and encourage new devel- tor — who also handled information
technology — resigned last year.
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the war … next term as mayor will would be.
Commerce breakfast last
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everything last.The Seaside City
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girl, then, and she talk-
was dark. Council also will:
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ed about how 500 peo-
the proposed $25 million city’s goals. The council may wrap up
ple might show up at a
community sing-along because there expansion of the Seaside Civic and work on ordinances focusing on fenc-
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and watching the swimmers at the na-
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will be managed. Although they are
tatorium.
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in the middle of the night June 21, posed natural history park and devel- that has been proposed for the past
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1942.
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should be a goal to settle the dispute
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Cannon Beach’s goals
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ter is the time to set their goals as well.
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The Seaside and Cannon Beach city
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Nancy McCarthy covers South
ting sessions, and the Gearhart coun- sion last Saturday that reworking the
council meeting agenda is a priority. Clatsop County for The Daily Astori-
cil plans to do the same Feb. 17.
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exercise, lose weight or spend more this: Instead of waiting through a two- non Beach Gazette and the Seaside
time with our families, the councils hour meeting to talk about what’s on Signal. Her column appears every
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have loftier plans.
Guest column
It’s time Oregon put a price on carbon
By CAMILA THORNDIKE
and DAN GOLDEN
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change
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Coastal Oregon, and we
are already seeing the impacts,
from warming oceans to sea
level rise to increasing ocean
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salmon and steelhead, and increases
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ditions that promote far greater
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increasing erosion and compromis-
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carbon-based shelled marine organ-
isms, such as clams and oysters.
These hardships are tiny com-
pared to the challenges our children
and grandchildren face if we fail to
act on climate change. Every rep-
utable authority — from the Penta-
gon to the United Nations — warns
that our current trajectory will lead
to unprecedented social, economic
and military crises. If we cannot
secure a transition from fossil fuels
before the end of the decade, it will
not be possible for future genera-
tions to adapt.
Fortunately, the solution is in
State University presented to the
Legislature their long-awaited study
on the impacts of a carbon pollution
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cant reduction in carbon pollution
and a negligible effect on the Coastal
economy.
Our problem is not a shortage
of solar panels or ethanol or hybrid
cars, nor is it an abundance of gas
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and oil pipelines. Our problem is
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our tanks — that comes later, in the
form of emergency drought relief,
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Legislature should
If polluters were accountable for
these costs, a price signal would re-
hold polluters
verberate throughout our economy.
It would reward smart decisions and
accountable for the
punish wasteful ones. Both proven
and novel energy alternatives would
damage they do to
attract new capital. Nothing but a
Coastal Oregon by
price on carbon can spark the sys-
temic transformation we need, and
making them pay to
that’s because it targets the problem
at its source.
pollute.
The Oregon Legislature should
hold polluters accountable for the
sight. Oregon has the rare opportuni- damage they do to Coastal Oregon
ty to lead our country and the world by making them pay to pollute. And
with the policy economists and cli- 100% of the revenue should be dis-
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hold out-of-state polluters account- QLDQVEHFDXVHWKHQDWXUDOEHQH¿FLD
able for climate change with a price ries are the victims of climate change
on carbon, either by charging them a — all of us.
Camila Thorndike is executive
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director of Oregon Climate. Dan
mits before they burn fossil fuels.
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nomic Research Center at Portland Climate.
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• State Sen. Betsy Johnson (D):
State Capitol, 900 Court St. N.E.,
S-314, Salem, OR 97301. Telephone:
503-986-1716. Email: sen.betsy john-
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OR 97103. Phone: 503-741-3300.
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P.O. Box 179, Astoria, OR 97103.
Phone: 503-325-1000.