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A2 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2018 Crab season delayed again in Oregon Crabbers on hold until at least the end of the month By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian Oregon’s Dungeness crab fi shery will not open until at least Dec. 31 after testing by state fi shery managers revealed crabs are still too low in meat yield in some areas of the coast. The valuable commercial fi shery traditionally opens on Dec. 1. In November, fi shery managers announced the season would be delayed until mid-December because crabs were not plump enough. The most recent delay is not a big surprise, said Tim Novotny, the spokesman for the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission, which advo- cates for the industry. “It was completely jus- tifi ed,” said John Corbin, a commercial fi sherma n in Clatsop County and chair- man of the crab commission. Testing showed low meat yield in crabs in the south- ern part of the state. Then — “what really made things Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Crab pots sit ready at the Warrenton Marina. look a little bleak for us getting the fi shery open,” Novotny said — tests at the Washington state border near Long Beach also came back similarly short. “When that happened it really kind of limited our options for ensuring a qual- ity product going to mar- ket,” he said. The commercial Dunge- ness crab fi shery is managed under a tri-state agreement between Washington state, Oregon and California. In early December, multiple areas within the region still did not meet the criteria for an opening, according to Oregon fi shery managers. The state will continue testing crab to determine if the season should open Dec. 31 in Oregon or be delayed further. It is possible Ore- gon could be split into two areas with different opening dates. For fi shermen, the delay means even more uncer- tainty around an already diffi cult and dangerous occupation. “The uncertainty of the opener has been going on for a few years now,” Corbin said. “It just used to be we knew we were going Dec. 1.” But the fi shery got off to a very late start last year, at fi rst, because of meat qual- ity and then, later, because of divisive price negotia- Seaside April 13, 1942—Nov. 10, 2018 Dec. 3, 2018 KISTLER, Kevin Ray, 57, of Naselle, Washington, died in Naselle. Ocean View Funeral & Cremation Service of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. BIRTH Nov. 27, 2018 ROOS, Nicole and Cody, of Warrenton, a girl, Rose Marie Roos, born at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Grandparents are Greg and Christine Riehl of Hammond and Bruce and Sandi Roos of Cloverdale. PUBLIC MEETINGS MONDAY Youngs River Lewis & Clark Water District Board, 6 p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway 101 Business. Cannon Beach Rural Fire Department Board, 6 p.m., Fire-Rescue Main Station, 188 Sunset Ave. Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., sion, 6:30 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St. Clatsop Community College Board, 6:30 p.m., Columbia Hall Room 219, 1651 Lexing- ton Ave., Astoria. Lewis & Clark Fire Depart- ment Board, 7 p.m., main fi re station, 34571 Highway 101 Business. City Hall, 989 Broadway. TUESDAY Cannon Beach City Council, 5:30 p.m., work session, City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Warrenton City Commis- sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main Ave. Astoria Planning Commis- FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT TUESDAY WEDNESDAY 54 43 45 Some clouds; breezy late with rain ALMANAC 52 38 Periods of rain Periods of rain Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 45/54 Tillamook 43/55 Salem 41/51 Newport 44/52 Dec 22 New Dec 29 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 9:37 a.m. 10:08 p.m. Low 3.6 ft. 0.3 ft. Ontario 24/38 Burns 15/33 Klamath Falls 22/39 Lakeview 16/37 Ashland 32/47 REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 37 42 53 49 50 40 49 47 51 53 Today Lo 20 26 42 39 46 22 31 41 44 44 W sn c c c sh sn c sh c c Hi 36 45 52 49 53 39 47 50 52 55 Tues. Lo 29 28 42 40 44 28 34 41 43 43 W sn i r r r c r r r r City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 47 42 48 48 49 51 34 49 47 39 W r s s s s pc c pc pc s s pc pc c c c s s s s s pc sh sh pc Hi 51 36 37 50 42 36 59 15 81 40 50 64 69 51 68 48 56 39 55 40 49 37 58 51 43 Tues. Lo 30 26 29 29 26 24 44 -4 72 28 28 41 49 37 51 33 40 30 34 29 37 29 51 42 31 Today Lo 40 31 41 39 41 45 29 38 41 29 W sh c sh c c sh sf c sh pc Hi 50 48 50 45 51 54 37 49 50 39 Tues. Lo 38 39 43 40 41 43 32 39 41 32 W r r r r r r sn r r c Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s s pc pc pc pc c sn pc pc pc s s s s s s s pc s s c s r s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. Robert Glenn Howell Jr., 76, beloved superintendent of human resources in the Fairfi eld-Suisun School District. husband, father, brother and friend, While Robert loved working in passed away surrounded by family the schools, he also loved working on Nov. 10, 2018 in Seaside, Oregon. in the community. He coached soc- Robert is survived by his wife of cer for many years, served on the 47 years, Tricia Howell; sons, Trent soccer board and also served as a Christopher and Morgan Nicho- park and recreation commissioner las Howell, and his brother, James in Yorba Linda, California. He also Howell. became a lay minister at Garden Robert was born in San Diego, Grove Community Church during California, to Robert and Gladys that period. Howell. He was the second of three Throughout his busy life, Rob- children in the family. Upon grad- Robert Glenn Howell ert found time to build his skills in uation from Helix High School, he landscaping, gardening and cooking. explored a number of occupations He was an inventive chef who never and then decided to go to college and enrolled at Fullerton Junior College in the made the same recipe twice. He enjoyed mid 1960s, where he earned an associate of beach camping with the family and always arts degree in psychology. He transferred to was most at home by the ocean. In 2015, Robert moved to Seaside, Ore- Cal State University, Fullerton and earned a gon, and found a wonderful place for retire- bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1969. By that time he knew his calling. He ment. Sadly, health concerns related to a neu- assisted the director of the Special Education rological disorder continued to grow during Clinic at CSUF and in 1970 earned a mas- his fi nal years. He and his family greatly ter’s degree in special education. In 1981, appreciated the help provided by the Seaside he furthered his education, earning a doctor- Providence Home Health providers: Mar- ate in educational leadership at United States ianne, Christy, Connie, Lucy, Susan, Diane and Angela. He and the family also thank International University in San Diego. Robert taught students with a wide variety Clatsop Care givers Sharon, April, Lea, Mea- of disabilities: severely handicapped, com- gan, Sarah and Jennifer for all of their sup- municatively handicapped, visually hand- port. The Lower Columbia Hospice team icapped and learning handicapped in both provided tremendous support to Robert and public and private school settings. His stu- family in his fi nal weeks. Funeral arrangements are in the care of dents ranged in age from early elementary to Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary in Asto- high school. Robert was always interested in teach- ria, Oregon. Memorial services will be held ing, training, coaching and helping others to Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at the grow and develop. This motivation led him Seaside Evergreen Masonic Lodge at 201 N. to become a school district administrator of Holladay Drive in Seaside. Graveside ser- special education programs in the Orange vices were held at an earlier date. In lieu of fl owers, the family suggests a Unifi ed School District. During his decades in Orange he devoted donation to his name to the Lower Colum- his energies to support administrators and bia Hospice 2111 Exchange St, Astoria, OR., programs throughout the state and held 97103. Please sign the online guest book at www. administrative leadership positions at the state level. In 2000, he became the assistant caldwellsmortuary.com LOTTERIES TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Hi 40 37 34 54 33 34 56 10 82 33 40 59 71 42 76 44 55 40 51 40 37 39 57 49 42 Baker 20/36 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Tonight's Sky: Auriga, the charioteer, is low in the northeast at nightfall and passes directly overhead by around midnight. Today Lo 32 24 25 30 21 25 38 3 72 20 26 45 50 24 52 21 36 28 28 24 27 27 45 43 28 La Grande 26/38 Roseburg 39/45 Brookings 41/52 Jan 5 John Day 23/42 Bend 26/45 Medford 31/47 UNDER THE SKY High 7.8 ft. 8.5 ft. Prineville 26/46 Lebanon 38/50 Eugene 39/49 Last Pendleton 31/48 The Dalles 32/43 Portland 41/50 Sunset tonight ........................... 4:30 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 7:48 a.m. Coos Bay Moonrise today ......................... 10:29 a.m. 43/54 Moonset today ........................... 7:43 p.m. City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC 51 43 Mostly cloudy with a bit of rain SUN AND MOON Time 4:15 a.m. 3:05 p.m. FRIDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Precipitation Sunday ............................................. 0.82" Month to date ................................... 1.32" Normal month to date ....................... 3.09" Year to date .................................... 54.71" Normal year to date ........................ 60.46" Dec 15 THURSDAY 52 43 Windy with rain Astoria through Sunday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 48°/43° Normal high/low ........................... 49°/37° Record high ............................ 61° in 2014 Record low ............................. 16° in 2009 Full expected to begin later this month and have the poten- tial to further complicate or even delay when commer- cial crab pots hit the water. Last season, the fi shery was open, but crabbers had yet to go out and fi sh after rejecting initial offers from processors to pay crabbers $2.30 a pound. Corbin has heard that tribal crabbers in Washing- ton state have been getting around $3.50 a pound while crabbers in San Francisco, which opened in mid-No- vember, are seeing around $4.25 per pound. Corbin said he knows some fi shermen who are try- ing to remain fl exible, keep- ing gear on their boats so they can hop into other fi sh- eries in case the crab season opener is delayed further. “You’ve just got to be prepared,” he said, “and hold on to the opening of the crab season loosely because you just don’t know when it might be.” Commercial harvest of Dungeness crab in Ore- gon bays is closed for the remainder of the year. Crab closures due to elevated lev- els of domoic acid are in effect from Cape Blanco to the California border. Robert Glenn Howell Jr. DEATH First tions and bad weather. Sea- sons have also been delayed in recent years because of elevated levels of the marine toxin domoic acid. Still, Corbin noted, Ore- gon saw a record $74 mil- lion ex-vessel value last season. “While the opening of the season is painful … the fi sh- ery has still been very lucra- tive, and it’s pretty hard to deny,” Corbin said. “Yeah, there’s a little extra pain for another couple weeks but it’s still panning out and turning into a viable fi shery. It’s just tough on everybody, the nerves and waiting all this stuff out. “I can’t say we’re getting numb to it. I’m not. But it is what it is.” In some areas, the crabs are very close to the min- imum 23 percent meat requirement, so Novotny and others are hopeful that the fi shery could open by Dec. 31. “We’re just going to remain optimistic that we get some good numbers on those areas where we’re just shy (of the requirement),” Novotny said. “Hopefully the next round of tests will get us there.” Price negotiations are OREGON Sunday’s Pick 4: 1 p.m.: 5-7-3-5 4 p.m.: 4-2-7-1 7 p.m.: 1-3-8-2 10 p.m.: 9-6-9-0 Sunday’s Lucky Lines: 3-7-9- 14-17-21-28-29 Estimated jackpot: $11,000 Saturday’s Pick 4: 1 p.m.: 0-0-2-8 4 p.m.: 7-1-3-3 7 p.m.: 2-7-7-6 10 p.m.: 0-3-8-6 Saturday’s Lucky Lines: 4-7-9- 16-19-24-28-30 Estimated jackpot: $31,000 Saturday’s Megabucks: 4-6-8- 15-17-35 Estimated jackpot: $5.2 million Saturday’s Powerball: 14-32- 34-46-61, Powerball: 10 Estimated jackpot: $230 million Friday’s Pick 4: 1 p.m.: 6-1-3-2 4 p.m.: 9-8-9-1 7 p.m.: 8-0-2-1 10 p.m.: 4-6-0-3 Friday’s Lucky Lines: 4-6-9-13- 18-24-26-29 Estimated jackpot: $30,000 Friday’s Mega Millions: 4-10- 20-33-57, Mega Ball: 13 Estimated jackpot: $245 million WASHINGTON Sunday’s Daily Game: 8-6-7 Sunday’s Keno: 02-13-14-16- 17-18-27-31-42-45-49-55-58- 61-66-69-71-73-76-79 Sunday’s Match 4: 01-02-08-23 Saturday’s Daily Game: 1-7-2 Saturday’s Hit 5: 05-13-18- 25-39 Estimated jackpot: $270,000 Saturday’s Keno: 04-08-10-16- 17-19-28-30-32-37-46-48-50- 51-59-66-67-75-78-80 Saturday’s Lotto: 01-13-18-22- 31-34 Estimated jackpot: $1.3 million Saturday’s Match 4: 02-12- 15-23 Friday’s Daily Game: 5-8-0 Friday’s Keno: 03-08-13-15-18- 21-22-23-28-30-31-45-47-52- 54-57-67-68-74-76 Friday’s Match 4: 03-11-21-22 Subscription rates Eff ective July 1, 2015 Established July 1, 1873 (USPS 035-000) Published daily, except Saturday and Sunday, by EO Media Group, 949 Exchange St., PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103 Telephone 503-325-3211, 800-781-3211 or Fax 503-325- 6573. 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