Golden State wins it all Warriors sweep the Tigers SPORTS • 4A SPORTS • 4A 142nd YEAR, No. 251 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015 ONE DOLLAR Willapa Bay gets new kill plan for VDOPRQ FELONY INDICTMENTS HIGH IN CLATSOP COUNTY Gillnetters say 20 percent rate will put WKHPRXWRIEXVLQHVV By KATIE WILSON EO Media Group :,//$3$ %$< :DVK ² 7KH :DVKLQJWRQ)LVKDQG:LOGOLIH&RP PLVVLRQDSSURYHGDVDOPRQPDQDJH PHQW SROLF\ IRU:LOODSD %D\ 6DWXU GD\WKDWJLOOQHW¿VKHUPHQVD\IDYRUV UHFUHDWLRQDO¿VKLQJDQGZLOOHYHQWX DOO\SXWWKHPRXWRIEXVLQHVVRQWKH bay. 7KH QHZ SROLF\ WDNHV HIIHFW LP PHGLDWHO\ DQG UHSODFHV DQ LQWHULP policy released earlier this spring. ,W RXWOLQHV D OHVV LPPHGLDWH FXW WR ¿VKLQJDFWLYLWLHVWKDQZKDWZDVSUR posed previously. 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There goes, potentially, 7KLUGJHQHUDWLRQVKHOO¿VKIDUP 25,000 gallons of oysters, at, er Brian Sheldon walked onto say, $24 a gallon. Willapa Bay at low tide and “It’s hard to watch ground showed where he had planned like this go to hell and not be to spray in May and seed with able to do anything about it,” coin-sized oysters in July. Sheldon said. Because of negative public Sheldon and other oyster reaction, he and fellow grow- DQG FODP JURZHUV LQ :LOOD ers won’t spray for burrowing pa Bay and Grays Harbor Don Jenkins — Capital Press VKULPSDQDSWO\QDPHGFUHD on Washington’s southwest WXUH WKDW WRVVHV PXG WR WKH coast are regrouping after Willapa Bay shellfish farmer Brian Sheldon looks for VXUIDFH ZKLOH FKXUQLQJ ¿UP abruptly withdrawing plans clams on tidelands undermined by burrowing shrimp. tidelands into goo. to spay up to 2,000 acres of Sheldon said that if he WLGHODQGV ZLWK LPLGDFORSULG The Washington Depart- SHUPLW $SULO DQG SXEOLF went ahead and put down tiny a neonicotinoid pesticide. PHQW RI (FRORJ\ LVVXHG WKH outrage followed. By DON JENKINS EO Media Group 6KHOO¿VKJURZHUVNQRZDS plying pesticides in tidelands is controversial, but Sheldon VDLG WKH\ XQGHUHVWLPDWHG WKH potential for backlash. *HWWLQJ '2(¶V SHUPLVVLRQ was tough, but the agency and growers were portrayed by critics as partners in environ- PHQWDOFULPH ³,PHDQZRZ7KDW¶VXQEH OLHYDEOH ,¶P VXUH DQ\ERG\ LQ DJULFXOWXUHZLOONQRZZKDW,¶P talking about,” Sheldon said. The plan unraveled. Puget 6RXQGEDVHG 7D\ORU 6KHOO¿VK )DUPV WKH FRXQWU\¶V ODUJHVW SURGXFHURI0DQLOODFODPVDQG JHRGXFNV DQQRXQFHG 0D\ it would not spray its Willa- SD %D\ EHGV 7KH FRPSDQ\ See FARMERS, Page 10A