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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2018
Fisheries: Astoria came in 10th with 94 million pounds
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Astoria was 10th
Alaska’s Dutch Harbor
led the pack in commercial
fi shery landings with 769
million pounds in 2017 — 1
million pounds less than in
2016. Astoria came in 10th
with 94 million pounds,
ahead of Newport, which
recorded 77 million pounds
landed.
In terms of value for the
commercial catch, New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts , logged
$390 million, coming in fi rst
place ahead of other com-
munities for the 18th year in
a row. Newport beat Astoria
with $53 million, up from
2016’s $48 million. Asto-
ria came in at $40 million
in 2017, $2 million less than
what was recorded in 2016.
The country’s high-
est-value commercial spe-
cies include many that are
particularly important to
North Coast fi shermen, such
as salmon, crab and shrimp.
But on the West Coast, in
general, commercial land-
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Workers at Bell Buoy Crab Co. offl oad crab at the Port of Chinook.
ings of salmon were down
even as values remain high.
In Oregon, commercial
salmon landings hit 18,757
pounds in 2016 — not far
off from what was landed
in 2008, but well below the
nearly 57,000 pounds landed
in 2013.
“Decades of habitat mod-
ifi cation, hatchery prac-
tices, harvest and grow-
ing competition for water
have affected the viability
of salmon stocks and made
them more vulnerable to
adverse environmental con-
ditions,” the federal eco-
nomics study noted.
Fishery managers strug-
gled to conduct salmon fi sh-
eries around major drought
issues in 2015, and salmon
stocks are still feeling the
effect of several years of
anomalous warm water con-
ditions. Some salmon runs
returned to the Columbia
River far below what was
forecast for this year.
On Washington state’s
Long Beach Peninsula, the
smaller combined ports of
Ilwaco and Chinook came
in last for value of the catch,
staying stable at $22 million
in both 2016 and 2017. They
saw an increase in landings,
however, from 13 million
pounds in 2016 to 16 mil-
lion pounds in 2017.
Catches of rockfi sh,
sablefi sh, mackerel, tuna,
Pacifi c fl ounder and hali-
but continue to dominate
the West Coast commercial
catch by pound. In the rec-
reational fi sheries, rockfi sh
make up the majority of the
by-pound catch.
The nation’s largest com-
mercial fi shery remains
Alaska pollock, which expe-
rienced near-record land-
ings of 3.4 billion pounds in
2017.
The Pacifi c whiting, or
hake, fi shery was a bright
spot for West Coast fi sher-
men, with both landings and
revenue up in 2016.
Aquaculture
The economics report
notes the growing impor-
tance of aquaculture in the
fi shing industry, though
the United States is not a
major producer, ranked 16th
worldwide in production.
Aquaculture
remains
an important part of the
landscape, however, said
Michael Liddel, a statisti-
cian in NOAA’s Offi ce of
Science and Technology and
editor of the fi sheries report.
Study authors estimate
that over half the seafood
that the country imports
and consumes comes from
aquaculture.
The
Pacifi c
region
accounts for about one-third
of the overall marine aqua-
culture production in the
United States, and 41 per-
cent of the volume. In Wash-
ington state, the rearing of
non-native Atlantic salmon
came under fi re after a net
pen failed in 2017, releasing
as many as 250,000 fi sh into
Puget Sound.
Washington was the only
state on the West Coast that
still allowed net pen farm-
ing of Atlantic salmon. Ear-
lier this year, state leaders
decided to phase out this
particular aquaculture prac-
tice by 2022.
Wauna: Is replacing the traditional ‘teller row’ inside its new locations
The Lums have already had
underground tanks decom-
Center. Blumberg had been missioned, but Wauna needs
speaking with the Lums for to do more cleanup before
several years about
construction
can
moving to their
begin, Blumberg said.
property until they
Wauna’s top pri-
recently agreed , he
ority is a new branch
said.
breaking ground in
The new Astoria
February in Forest
branch will only be
Grove, a foothold
about 2,000 square
to expand the com-
Debi
feet, with additional
pany’s business in
Smiley
offi ce space for online
Washington County .
banking, mortgages,
Next comes a new
commercial loans and other location in Scappoose and
expanding businesses, said the relocation in Astoria.
Debi Smiley, Wauna’s chief
Wauna is also planning
marketing offi cer. The credit to break ground in 2020 on
union has also considered a new branch in Seaside,
building apartments on the where it recently bought a
second fl oor .
smaller lot at the corner of
The new location is on the Avenue C and U.S. High-
site of a former gas station. way 101.
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Wauna has more than
1,200 customers in South
County who were clamor-
ing for a local branch, Blum-
berg said. The location will
also serve as a bridge to
another location Wauna
wants to build in Cannon
Beach.
“As these big, regional,
national banks pull out of
these areas, that leaves these
communities underbanked,”
Blumberg said. “And so
we’re looking at build-
ing inexpensive, smaller
branches that are full-ser-
vice, using technology to
reach our members.”
As much of daily banking
has shifted online, Wauna
has also focused more on
technology to serve cus-
tomers, from more interac-
tive ATMs to mobile phone
applications that allow
remote contact with tellers.
Only 12 percent of trans-
actions are done over the
counter, Smiley said.
Wauna is replacing the
traditional “teller row”
inside its new locations with
problem-solving pods, while
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