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The commission plans to Willapa Bay Ad Hoc Salmon By KATIE WILSON hold a public hearing on the Advisory Committee, whose EO Media Group policy and is expected to take members, a mix of conservation- action on it at a meeting on LONG BEACH, Wash. — LVWV UHFUHDWLRQDO ¿VKHUPHQ DQG June 13 in Olympia. 0RUHWKDQFRPPHUFLDO¿VK- FRPPHUFLDO ¿VKHUPHQ DUH DS- To view the draft policy, visit tinyurl.com/WillapaPlan. Written ermen and seafood processors pointed by the state. “They have comments may be submitted picketed outside the annual Pa- removed us from the Columbia, via e-mail to willapabay@dfw. FL¿F &RXQW\ 0DULQH 5HVRXUFH drastically cut back seasons on wa.gov or by mail to Steve Thies- Committee Science Conference the Columbia, removed us from feld, Washington Department at the Cranberry Museum in Grays Harbor, Puget Sound. So of Fish and Wildlife, 600 Capitol Long Beach May 16, protesting we were told by the commission Way N., Olympia, WA 98501. a draft management policy they that the Willapa would be the last say could end commercial salm- place we could hang our hat and now they’re taking that from us.” listing here,” Wecker said in an RQ¿VKLQJRQ:LOODSD%D\ “This,” he said, “will be a nail interview later that day. The woman they believe is behind the policy, former LQWKHFRI¿Q´ Washington Fish and Wildlife More than ¿sherPen Commission member Miranda Managing the Willapa Fishermen worry that if Wecker, spoke at the confer- On the surface, Willapa Bay KDWFKHU\ SURGXFWLRQ RI ¿VK LV ence, talking about lessons she’s DSSHDUVVLPSOHWKHUHDUHQRWULE- diminished — as has been sug- learned working with state agen- DO¿VKHULHVWKDWQHHGWREHLQFOXG- gested in certain options listed cies in Willapa Bay over the past ed in any seasonal management in the draft management plan 23 years. plans, there are no federally pro- ²¿VKUXQVRQWKHED\ZLOOGLH Though Wecker stepped tected salmon species and while out or take decades, even up- down as chair of the Fish and UHFUHDWLRQDO¿VKLQJRSSRUWXQLWLHV wards of 100 years, to hit brood Wildlife Commission earlier this GRH[LVWLWLVDVPDOOHU¿VKHU\DOO stock management standards \HDU VKH UHPDLQV DQ LQÀXHQWLDO around. and spawning goals set out by member. At a commission meet- Since 2010, recreational and WDFW. The department and the ing in April, she made a motion FRPPHUFLDO VDOPRQ ¿VKHULHV LQ Fish and Wildlife Commission, to amend an interim policy to the bay and its associated rivers however, believe these goals will JXLGH VDOPRQ ¿VKLQJ have been managed be met within 16 to 21 years un- operations for this under a draft plan. GHUWKHSHUFHQWRSWLRQV,QWKH year as a draft man- Then a lawsuit was meantime, the plan could affect agement plan goes brought against the PRUHWKDQ¿VKHUPHQ out for public com- Dean Antich, general manager state by the nonprof- ment. She moved to it Twin Harbors Fish of South Bend Products, a salm- further reduce from and Wildlife Advoca- on-processing facility in South 20 percent to 14 per- cy alleging misman- Bend, said he was out picketing cent the proportion of agement of commer- ZLWKWKH¿VKHUPHQEHFDXVHWKHLU naturally spawning cial and recreational gillnet operations mean jobs in the Chinook commercial VDOPRQ ¿VKHULHV LQ FRPPXQLW\²VSHFL¿FDOO\MREVDW ¿VKHUPHQDUHDOORZHG Miranda Wecker the bay. This lawsuit South Bend Products’ buying and to accidentally kill in resulted in a settle- processing centers. the regular course of “Our business is ever-reli- ment in 2014 that re- ¿VKLQJ TXLUHGWKH:DVKLQJWRQ)LVKDQG DQWRQJLOOQHW¿VKLQJLQ:LOODSD Such mortality rates affect Wildlife Department to develop Bay,” he said. The reduction KRZDQGIRUKRZORQJ¿VKHUPHQ and adopt management plans for to 14 percent would mean he FDQ¿VKLIWKH\KLWWRRPDQ\ZLOG Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor. employs fewer people later this &KLQRRN ¿VKLQJ HQGV HDUO\ ,Q The Grays Harbor plan went VXPPHUDQGIDOO³,WZRXOGHOLP- SULRU \HDUV:LOODSD %D\ ¿VKHU- through earlier this year. Accord- inate 30 jobs from August, Sep- men have been allowed up to 40 LQJWRFRPPHUFLDO¿VKHUPHQLWLV tember, October.” For similar reasons, close to percent and in previous versions so stringent it has all but forced RI WKH SODQ FRPPHUFLDO ¿VKHU- them off the water there. They a dozen employees from Born- men would have been allowed are afraid the same thing will stein Seafoods in Astoria were also present. 20 percent for several years as happen in Willapa Bay. ,W¶V QRW VRPHWKLQJ $QWLFK On May 16, when Wecker the new management plan settled into place, gradually stepping gave her speech, the protesters feels the Fish and Wildlife Com- GRZQWRSHUFHQW,QWKH&R- crowded inside the Cranberry mission has considered. 3DFL¿F&RXQW\&RPPLVVLRQ- OXPELD 5LYHU WKH HTXLYDOHQW DO- Museum and propped one of their signs against a chair in the HUV6WHYH5RJHUVDQG/LVD$\HUV lowable impact is 2 percent.) EDFNLWVPHVVDJHIDFLQJ:HFNHU attended the conference and went ³0LUDQGD:HFNHU7KHWUXWKZLOO outside to meet with protesters Another step too far? That same 14 percent is in- VHW\RXIUHH*LOOQHWWHUV¿VKIRU before the talks began inside. As cluded among the options sug- WKHSHRSOHWKDWGRQ¶WVSRUW¿VK´ cars drove in to park behind the Though she touched on Wil- &UDQEHUU\ 0XVHXP DQG ¿VKHU- gested in the draft management plan currently out for public ODSD %D\ VDOPRQ ¿VKLQJ EULHÀ\ PHQ KRLVWHG WKHLU VLJQV 5RJHUV FRPPHQW,ILWJRHVIRUZDUGWKH in her speech, the subject mostly assured them that they were ¿VKHUPDQ JDWKHUHG RQ 0D\ DURVHGXULQJWKHIROORZLQJTXHV- “preaching to the choir.” Wahkiakum County Com- VD\WKHJLOOQHW¿VKHU\WKDWRSHU- tion-and-answer period. She warned them that though missioner Mike Backman was ates on Willapa Bay is over. ³,WPDNHVLWDOPRVWXQYLDEOH there are no salmon on the Wil- also present, standing farther WR GR DV D UHDO MRE´ VDLG 5RQ lapa listed under the Endangered down the road from the main &DU\-UDIRXUWKJHQHUDWLRQ¿VK- Species Act, such a change is group but also holding a sign. He erman based out of Nahcotta. He possible if WDFW can’t meet its is in his third year as a commis- and his brother run a gillnet boat conservation goals, goals it hopes sioner but also has commercially LQWKHED\³,WPLJKWSD\IRULWVHOI WRPHHWE\UHVWULFWLQJKDUYHVW,I ¿VKHGLQ%ULVWRO%D\$ODVNDDQG if you do it, but you’re not going salmon species became listed un- RQWKH&ROXPELD5LYHU+HZRUNV to make enough to go anywhere der the ESA, that could change as a wholesale buyer as well, sell- HYHU\WKLQJ IRU HYHU\ERG\ UHF- ing to South Bend Products. with it.” He wanted the Fish and Wild- Most of the gillnetters who UHDWLRQDODQGFRPPHUFLDO¿VKHU- ZRUN :LOODSD DOVR ¿VK HOVH- PHQ VKHOO¿VK JURZHUV DQG KDU- life Commission and the com- where. Many are crabbers. Still, vesters, and other industries that munity to think about the wider Willapa Bay does represent make their living on the shores or economic context of limiting commercial salmon harvest on VLJQL¿FDQW LQFRPH DQG KLVWRU\ waters of Willapa Bay. ,WLVDFRQFHSWWKH¿VKHUPHQ :LOODSD %D\ 5HFUHDWLRQDO ¿VK- WR WKH SHRSOH ZKR ¿VK WKHUH 6KLIWLQJ WR RWKHU ¿VKHULHV RU and processors present disputed. ing brings some money to com- RWKHUORFDWLRQVZLOOEHGLI¿FXOW They had yet to hear anyone from munities, he said, but not like WKHVWDWHRUIHGHUDO¿VKHU\PDQ- FRPPHUFLDO¿VKLQJ ¿VKHUPHQVDLG ³1RZ ZKHQ ZH JR ¿VKLQJ ³,Q WKH &ROXPELD 5LYHU agement suggest such a desig- there’s still some openers and nation is possible, they said. The we go out and then we make some off sites, but the Willapa ¿VKUHWXUQLQJWRWKH:LOODSDDUH money and then we spend that %D\LVZKHUH,¶YHDOZD\V¿VKHG´ KDWFKHU\¿VKWKH\VDLG2IWKRVH money,” he said. “That mon- &DU\ VDLG ³,¶G KDYH WR FKDQJH some return to the hatcheries to ey gets put into the system. … spawn, others stray and spawn They look at us, they see only a SUHWW\PXFKHYHU\WKLQJ,GR´ A plan by former Oregon on their own and don’t return to handful of us. But we represent Gov. John Kitzhaber has re- DKDWFKHU\²WKHVH³QDWXUDO¿VK´ every restaurant, every store. You stricted gillnet operations on DUH VWLOO KDWFKHU\ ¿VK WKRXJK NQRZ\RXJHWD¿VKLQ6DIHZD\LW comes from somebody like us … the main stem of the Colum- ¿VKHUPHQDUJXHGQRWZLOG ³,GREHOLHYHLWLVQRWZLVHWR This food doesn’t just materialize ELD5LYHUZKLOHDPDQDJHPHQW plan in Grays Harbor has made assume we will never have ESA inside of grocery stores.” Fishers protest salmon-harvest cutback in bay OC EAN C RES T C H EVR OLET | BUIC K | G M C | C AD ILLAC Willapa worries 5 03-861-3366 w w w .o ce a n cre s tm o to rs .co m A normally staid science conference in north Long Beach was the scene of picketing Satur- day to protest proposed cuts in Willapa Bay salmon gillnetting. Pacific County commercial fishermen are angry at the prospect of losing more fishing opportunity in light of recent steps by Washington and Oregon to move them off the Columbia River’s mainstem. 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