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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2017
Barnett: Next court appearance set for next week Fireworks: ‘This is
not a simple problem’
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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’
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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
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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. If new
regulations were approved
now, they wouldn’t take
effect until the Fourth of July
in 2019.
Not a Ban, a Better Plan
is working to help the pen-
insula put limits in place
before the rowdy crowds of
a weekend holiday come in
2020, Vanneman said. “We
just cannot go through what
we went through in 2015
again,” she said.
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