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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2016
Chinook season reopens
Ballot measure would
while sturgeon season closes restrict city land sales
The Daily Astorian
CLACKAMAS – Fishery
managers from Oregon and
Washington state on Tues-
day reopened a Chinook
salmon fishery and closed a
recreational sturgeon fishery
on the Columbia River.
Chinook fishing on the
Lower Columbia River will
be open Friday through
Monday, then reopen again
on June 3 and continue
through June 15 when the
summer Chinook fishing
season begins.
According to Tucker
Jones, Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife’s Colum-
bia River program manager,
the joint state action is based
on the remaining allowable
catch and a projected run
size of 180,000 to the river
mouth.
“We’re excited that we
can open Chinook fishing
over Memorial Day week-
end,” he said, “And by clos-
ing the fishery for a few days
in middle of next week we
hope to provide some sta-
bility to our constituents,
and avoid emergency clo-
sures for the duration of the
season.”
The states did leave open
the possibility of shortening
the season if catch rates are
higher than expected over
Memorial weekend.
The daily bag limit is
two fin-clipped adult sal-
monids per day, of which
only one may be a Chinook.
Only adipose fin-clipped
fish may be kept. Retention
of fin-clipped Chinook jacks
is also allowed. Sockeye
salmon must be released.
Permanent regulations for
steelhead and jack Chinook
apply when adult Chinook
seasons are closed. All other
permanent regulations apply.
The states also opted to
close the recreational white
sturgeon fishery in the John
Day Pool where the season
has been underway since
the beginning of the year
and anglers have nearly met
their annual harvest guide-
line of 500 fish. The closure
is effective Sunday.
Warrenton
police chief also
praises several
for heroism
By DERRICK
DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — A mea-
sure that would require dou-
ble-majority voter approval
before the city transfers Tansy
Point or other valuable assets
could be on the November
ballot.
The initiative, backed by the
Warrenton Property Protection
Committee, was presented to
the City Commission Tuesday
night. The commission has 30
days to either accept the mea-
sure as law, reject the idea and
place the measure on the bal-
lot, or place the measure on the
ballot along with a competing
measure from commissioners.
Ken Yuill, a retired utility
technician, and others gathered
signatures for the ballot mea-
sure after opposing a land swap
between the city and Warren-
ton Fiber at Tansy Point. The
ballot measure would apply to
Authorities trying to ID skeletal
remains found near Pillar Rock
By NATALIE ST. JOHN
EO Media Group
WAHKIAKUM COUNTY,
Wash. — An area man dis-
covered human remains on
Friday while boating on the
Columbia River near Pillar
Rock.
Wahkiakum County Pros-
ecutor and Coroner Dan
Bigelow said Tuesday that
investigators believe the
remains belong to an adult
man who probably went
missing roughly two years
ago.
According to Bigelow,
the boater was floating down
the river near the point where
Altoona Pillar Rock Road
terminates when he saw the
body lying on the shore.
“This one had a sharp
eye,” Bigelow said, noting
that boaters regularly pass
by that spot.
“Of the hundreds of peo-
ple who went by there, he
was the one who spotted it.
You could call him lucky
or unlucky, I guess,” Bige-
low said. “You’d have to ask
him.”
Bigelow said the discov-
ery consisted of “skeletal
remains, with some remain-
ing tissue.” Though the body
was walking distance from
the road, it was in a place
that would have been diffi-
cult to access from land —
one possible explanation for
why it wasn’t spotted sooner.
“It would be a heck of a
hike,” Bigelow said.
Investigators plan to try
to identify the remains using
dental records and DNA test-
ing. However, these meth-
ods are generally more suc-
cessful when there are some
known possible matches.
Although the investiga-
tion is in its early stages,
there are already some clues
that could help identify the
remains:
• The remains are prob-
ably those of a person who
went missing sometime
after May 2013, and has
been dead for two or more
years.
• The man was Caucasian.
He was probably roughly
5’8”, and anywhere between
30 to 60 years old. There are
circumstantial indications
that the man was of middle
age or older.
• The man was dressed
for outdoor sport, in size 10
Vibram-soled boots, a red
button-down shirt, Levi’s
jeans with a 38-inch waist,
and 32-inch inseam, and
black gaiters.
• The man was carry-
ing a microfiber optical lens
cleaning cloth that had an
advertisement for a Seattle
optometrist’s office printed
on it.
• The man probably did
not die where his remains
were found. Instead he could
have disappeared in any area
that contains water that feeds
into the Columbia River, in
either Washington state or
Oregon.
• He most likely went
missing somewhere between
the west side of Cascade
Locks, and the eastern part
of Wahkiakum County.
Bigelow asked the pub-
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city land valued at more than
$100,000.
Earlier this month, the City
Commission voted to raise the
threshold for such ballot mea-
sures. So, to pass, Yuill’s mea-
sure would need double-major-
ity voter approval.
The requirement means that
a majority of more than 50 per-
cent of registered voters must
approve the change.
Police chief praises
heroes
In other business Tuesday
night, Police Chief Mathew
Workman recognized several
people for heroism.
• Chris Mayer, the store
manager at Rite Aid, received a
citizen commendation for help-
ing an elderly Astoria woman
who was the target of a phone
scam.
The woman had sought to
buy $2,000 in rechargeable
credit cards in February after
being told her grandson was in
city jail and needed bail money.
Mayer alerted Warrenton
Police, who explained to the
woman that the city does not
have a jail.
• Daniel Withers and Travis
Addison, who serve in the U.S.
Coast Guard, were awarded citi-
zen commendations for interven-
ing after a Longview, Washing-
ton, man tried to steal an elderly
woman’s purse in the Fred
Meyer parking lot in January.
Withers used his SUV to
block the man from driving
away. The man rammed With-
ers’ vehicle and led on foot.
Addison, who was parked
in the lot during the crime, later
identiied the man for Warren-
ton Police.
The man — Dustin Clint
Hapgood — was sentenced to
ive years in prison.
• Darlene Warren, an insur-
ance agent, received a citizen
commendation for alerting
Warrenton Police in March to
a knife-wielding woman who
had fallen into a ditch and was
screaming about frogs.
Warren stayed with the
woman until police arrived.
Three oficers — Aaron
Berndt, Richard Kraynak and
Robert Wirt — were presented
with letters of commendation
for taking the woman into cus-
tody for a mental health evalu-
ation. One of the oficers used
pepper spray to distract the
woman, but, Workman said,
the situation could have esca-
lated into deadly force had the
oficers lost their composure.
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