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DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 144TH YEAR, NO. 58 Anchovies pick up where sardines left of in Astoria ONE DOLLAR R.J. Marx/The Daily Astorian This 40-foot gray whale with no tail washed ashore Friday in Arch Cape. Dead whale on the move Whale carcass eludes researchers By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian SeaA inc. employee David Pocaca moves ice on Thursday at the SeaA Inc. fish-processing building in Astoria. SeaA Inc. hopes to process more species, become year-round operation By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian ARCH CAPE — Researchers gathered in Falcon Cove were prepared to conduct a nec- ropsy of the humpback whale washed ashore Friday night. Although the whale had been dead for several days, they hoped the exam- ination would provide clues as to the mam- mal’s demise. But when they arrived at the secluded and tide-driven Cove Beach, the whale was gone. “The whale washed back out,” Tiffany Boothe of the Seaside Aquarium said. “It probably will wash back in deeper into the Cape Falcon Marine Reserve — an area we can’t access because of the boulders.” The carcass could wash up on another beach or it could “rot away” somewhere, the aquarium’s General Manager Keith Chan- dler added. See WHALE, Page 10A he factory sounds and briny scent of ish processing has returned to the Astoria Riverwalk at Ninth Street after a two- year lull. SeaA Inc., a business that sorts, freezes and conveys anchovies wholesale to domestic and international markets, has reanimated the ware- house and processing plant once occupied by Astoria Holdings Inc. From late afternoon until midnight, the work- ers take the day’s haul, separate the damaged ish and pack the rest into plastic-lined boxes. The packages are frozen, loaded onto refrig- erated trucks, transported to Tacoma, Washing- ton, and shipped to markets in Japan, China and western European countries for use as food and bait. In summer 2014, Astoria Holdings, a sar- dine-only business that opened in 1999, shut- tered after the Paciic Fishery Management Council set unexpectedly low catch limits for the year’s sardine season. Marine scientists had documented a plum- meting sardine population, prompting the coun- cil to scale back traditional quotas. “That pretty much stopped us,” said Rick Parker, a SeaA Inc. engineer who had worked for Astoria Holdings. The council, which regulates Oregon, Wash- ington state and California isheries, shut down sardine ishing for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. T Ray Pitz/Sherwood Gazette Jason Goodding’s No. 85 jersey was scheduled to be retired during a Sher- wood vs. Lakeridge football game Fri- day in Lake Oswego. Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian See ANCHOVIES, Page 10A Anchovies move along a conveyor belt before packaging at the SeaA Inc. building. Former teammates, family to attend Pro-painkiller lobby shaped policy amid drug epidemic By MATTHEW PERRONE and BEN WIEDER Associated Press and Center for Public Integrity For more than a decade, members of a little-known group called the Pain Care Forum have blanketed Wash- ington with messages about prescrip- tion painkillers’ vital role in the lives of millions of Americans, creating an echo chamber that has quietly derailed efforts to curb U.S. consumption of drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet. In 2012, drugmakers and their afiliates in the forum sent a letter to U.S. senators promoting a recent report on a “crisis of epidemic pro- Sherwood team retires Goodding’s number Pamplin Media Group portions”: pain in America. Few knew the report stemmed from leg- islation drafted and pushed by forum members and that their experts had helped author it. The report estimated more than 100 million Americans — roughly 40 percent of adults — suf- fered from chronic pain, an eye-pop- ping statistic that some researchers call deeply problematic. The letter made no reference, how- ever, to another health issue that had been declared an epidemic by federal authorities: drug overdoses tied to pre- scription painkillers. Deaths linked to addictive opioid drugs had increased more than fourfold since 1999, AP Photo/Toby Talbot See EPIDEMIC, Page 10A OxyContin pills arranged for a pho- to at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. The No. 85 football jersey of slain Sea- side Police Sgt. Jason Goodding is sched- uled to be retired during the Friday matchup between Sherwood and Lakeridge high schools at Sherwood. The presentation will fea- ture family, teammates from Goodding’s 1993 Sherwood football team and words from football coach Greg Lawrence. Jason Goodding was shot and Goodding killed in February in Seaside. He grew up in Sherwood, and played basket- ball, baseball and football. A recent golf tournament in his honor raised more than $60,000, funds that will help not only Goodding’s family, but also will be used to establish a scholarship fund and a second fund to help other families who may suffer similar tragedies in the future.
