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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
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Some clouds; breezy late
with rain
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ASTORIA
45/54
Tillamook
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Salem
41/51
Newport
44/52
Dec 22
New
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TOMORROW'S TIDES
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Low
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Ontario
24/38
Burns
15/33
Klamath Falls
22/39
Lakeview
16/37
Ashland
32/47
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Bend
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Newport
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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
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Baker
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Tonight's Sky: Auriga, the charioteer, is low in the
northeast at nightfall and passes directly overhead
by around midnight.
Today
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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
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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
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