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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2017 Barnett: Next court appearance set for next week Fireworks: ‘This is not a simple problem’ Continued from Page 1A each month, Sheriff’s Offi ce Lt. Matt Phillips said. About 9 p.m. Saturday, Sea- side Police responded to the scene of a woman possibly being assaulted with two minor children present at the home. Police also heard that someone connected to the disturbance may have been driving while highly intoxicated. When offi cers came upon the 1999 Dodge Durango allegedly driven by Barnett, it was moving at a high rate of speed with the lights off. As they attempted to stop the SUV, it hit the police car before speeding off. Shortly after, the SUV — driving northbound on U.S. Highway 101 — jumped a sidewalk outside of McDon- ald’s restaurant, struck a con- crete light pole and slammed into a bus stop shelter occu- Ron Althoff The woman charged with manslaughter in a fatal crash in Seaside on Saturday night had a high blood alcohol content, authorities said. pied by two men. One man — Robert Miles, 42, of Ham- mond — died, while another — Abdirisak Mohamed, 41, of Longview, Washington — was critically injured. “The car ended up almost hitting City Hall, but then she fl ed the car,” Buzzard said in court. Witnesses pointed offi cers in the direction where Barnett reportedly fl ed and found her hiding behind bushes. Soon after, Barnett admitted to being the driver and drinking prior to the crash, according to an affi davit. Barnett has been charged with fi rst-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault, third-de- gree assault, strangulation, two counts of failure to perform the duties of a driver to injured per- sons and DUII. She remains in jail on a $500,000 bail. If con- victed on all charges, she faces at least 16 years in prison. Her next scheduled court appear- ance is next week. Seabirds: ‘It’s not just a need, I think it’s an obligation’ Continued from Page 1A Oregon and Washing- ton state vessels in the sable- fi sh longline fi sheries spool out miles of horizontal line set with baited hooks. Confl icts occur when seabirds, expect- ing an easy meal, dive down to snatch the bait and hook them- selves instead. Besides the economic impact of losing bait to hungry birds, there is the ever-present fear that if too many endan- gered seabirds get harmed, fi shery restrictions or even clo- sures could follow. Such fears exist across fi sheries where gear and animals clash. This year, the fi shermen and others involved in the highly lucrative Dungeness crab fi sheries in Oregon and Washington state started col- laborating with researchers, biologists, fi shery managers and gear manufacturers to fi g- ure out ways to avoid entan- gling whales in crab lines, hop- ing to address the issue before City limits Continued from Page 1A it becomes a major problem. The bycatch — acciden- tally catching a species not being targeted by fi shing gear — of seabirds in longline fi sh- eries is a conservation con- cern around the world. An estimated 160,000 seabirds are killed in longline fi sheries worldwide each year. Albatrosses are especially vulnerable: Of the 22 species, 15 are threatened with extinc- tion. They take a long time to reach breeding age, often not laying eggs until they are 5 to 10 years old, and, then, only laying an egg a year or every other year, Gladics said. It doesn’t take much to make a deep cut in these birds’ pop- ulations. Fishermen have to report all hooked short-tailed albatross to the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service. A common solution to keep birds away from gear is to string up brightly-col- ored rubber streamer lines, or “bird scaring lines,” that fl utter above the sunken, baited long- lines, creating a visual bar- rier. But Gladics said it’s not a “one-size-fi ts-all” solution. The way fi shermen use their gear can vary with con- ditions and location. Areas with strong currents, scaven- gers near the bottom, or more scavengers near the top can mean lines need to carry more weight so they’ll sink quickly, or a fl oat to make sure they don’t sink too fast or too far. “The solutions really have to be tailored for these differ- ent characteristics that fi sh- ermen are working under,” Gladics said. The study found that if streamer lines are used in combination with other meth- ods, like setting hooks at night when birds are less active and getting baited longlines to sink quickly, the likelihood that an albatross will try to grab bait drops considerably. “There’s collateral dam- age that could be avoided by experimentation or research that could make (a fi shery) better,” said Al Pazar, a com- mercial fi sherman and cap- tain of a research boat for hire based out of Florence who has worked with Gladics and other researchers and groups over the years to address issues around seabird bycatch. “That’s where collaboration comes in.” Issues like albatross mortal- ity can shut multi million-dol- lar fi sheries down, he said. “Fishermen want to perpetuate their business and their stocks … so we’re quite interested in making it better.” The solutions proposed in the study are the type that don’t get in a fi sherman’s way, he said, easy for crews to adopt and relatively inexpensive for vessel owners to incorporate. Fishermen, in fact, suggested night fi shing as a method of avoiding interactions with albatross. “It’s not just a need, I think, it’s an obligation to minimize this kind of interaction,” Pazar said. “While I respect what the Better Plan folks are doing and trying to accomplish, this is not a simple problem and it probably doesn’t have a simple solution,” Wolfe wrote in an email . “Laws are only as good as our ability to enforce them.” It’s unclear whether State Parks offi cers would help make sure local rules were followed if they were dif- ferent than state law, Wolfe said. Many complaints about fi reworks involve viola- tions of rules that are already in place. So making more restrictive laws for selling and lighting off fi reworks might not improve the situ- ation, Wolfe said. “Locally sold, safe and sane fi reworks are generally not the problem,” he wrote. “Most complaints involve fi reworks that loft explosive projectiles or detonate with loud bangs. Most of these are not sold on the peninsula and may not be legal.” However, more danger- ous fi reworks are available elsewhere, so limiting access to safer ones could backfi re, he said. He suggested stricter enforcement of existing rules might be more effective. Survey takers from pen- insula cities favored limiting or banning fi reworks by 76 percent, results show. Long Beach Mayor Jerry Phillips said some on the City Council want to cut a couple of days from the eight-day state schedule, but the majority does not. The council does not plan to consider changes for fi reworks until after new members are elected in November. Ilwaco plans to stay in line with Long Beach and unin- corporated Pacifi c County when deciding whether to change its rules for Fourth of July celebrations, Mayor Mike Cassinelli said. “Right now we are in a wait-and-see mode,” he said. Washington requires 365- day notice before changing rules for fi reworks. 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