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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021
IN BRIEF
Girl who died after being swept out to
sea near Cannon Beach identifi ed
OPTOG
The girl who died last week after being swept out
to sea off Cannon Beach was publicly identifi ed by her
family as Lily Pearl Markwell, 11, of Portland.
In an obituary, the family said Markwell died on Fri-
day at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Port-
land after being pulled from the water on Thursday.
“Lily was a spirited, beautiful girl since before she
was born,” the obituary said. “When she wasn’t read-
ing a book (fantasy was always a favorite) she was out
fi nding adventure — rock climbing, swimming, biking,
or just playing with her siblings. Lily was a joy to be
around. She was usually very straight-faced, skeptical
and a little sarcastic but always kind, especially to those
who were vulnerable or overlooked.”
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family
with medical and funeral expenses.
Hikers helped off
Saddle Mountain after injuries
A U.S. Coast Guard aircrew hoisted a hiker Fri-
day after she injured her ankle near the top of Saddle
Mountain.
The aircrew arrived at about 5:45 p.m. and the woman
was met by medical personnel just before 7 p.m.
A similar scenario occurred Saturday when respond-
ers located an injured hiker.
According to the Hamlet Volunteer Fire Department,
because of the location and poor trail conditions it was
determined that carrying the patients down the hill car-
ried signifi cant risk and the Coast Guard was called for
assistance during both rescues. Both operations were
conducted effi ciently and safely.
“It was the same exact scenario two days in a row,”
Seaside Fire Division Chief Genesee Dennis said.
“Injured hikers were located almost at the very top.”
The Coast Guard urges people venturing to remote
areas to have reliable means of communication to reach
emergency responders.
— The Astorian
Janet Bowler
People from the Scandinavian community gathered on Marine Drive on Saturday to help mark a modifi ed Astoria Scandinavian
Midsummer Festival. The festival was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
DEATH
Death
June 19, 2021
COFFEY, Patricia Velma, 93, of Oak Ridge, Ten-
nessee, formerly of Astoria, died in Oak Ridge. Ocean
View Funeral & Cremation Service of Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
Scott Docherty
Photos by Janet Bowler
Miss Sweden Kaisa Liljenwall was crowned Miss Scandinavia 2021.
Liljenwall is studying biomedical engineering at the University of
Southern California and is part of the university’s Navy ROTC.
ABOVE: Loran Mathews was honored for his 50 years of volunteer
service to the festival and other community groups. BELOW: The
2021 Midsummer Court was part of a fl ag ceremony.
MEMORIAL
Saturday, June 26
Memorial
VERNOR, Leila Mae (Hickerson) — Memorial
at 11 a.m., Seaside United Methodist Church, 241
N. Holladay Drive. Service also available via Zoom;
email seasideunitedmethodist@gmail.com before
noon Friday for the link. A gathering takes place after
the service at 725 Second Ave. in Seaside.
ON THE RECORD
Assault
Burglary
On
the
Record
• Alexander
Adrian
• Christopher Lee Toole,
Bologna, 31, of Seaside,
was arraigned Friday on
charges of assault in the
second degree, unlaw-
ful use of a weapon and
criminal mischief in the
second degree.
• Justin Peterson,
38, of Warrenton, was
arrested Saturday in War-
renton for assault in the
fourth degree.
Resisting arrest
• Kristina Nieto, 40,
of Meridian, Idaho, was
arrested Saturday on U.S.
Highway 101 in War-
renton for attempting to
elude a police offi cer and
resisting arrest.
24, of Seaside, was arrested
Saturday in Astoria for bur-
glary in the second degree,
theft in the third degree
and criminal mischief in
the second degree. Police
say someone threw a rock
through a window at the
Astoria Liquor Store early
Friday morning. Toole was
later found with a bottle
of rum missing from the
liquor store.
DUII
• Jake McCormic, 35,
was arrested Sunday on
U.S. Highway 101 and E.
Harbor Drive in Warren-
ton for driving under the
infl uence of intoxicants.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Astoria Planning Commission, 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane
St.
Warrenton City Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main Ave.
WEDNESDAY
Astoria Parks Advisory Board, 6:45 a.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 6 p.m., (electronic
meeting).
Cannon Beach City Council, 6 p.m., work session, (electronic
meeting).
THURSDAY
Sunset Empire Transportation District Board, 9 a.m., budget
hearing and board meeting, (electronic meeting).
Clatsop County Recreational Lands Planning Advisory Com-
mittee, 1 p.m., (electronic meeting).
Cannon Beach Planning Commission, 6 p.m., (electronic
meeting).
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Aquaculture advocates aim
to bring more fi sh to tables
By BRADLEY W. PARKS
Oregon Public Broadcasting
While the word farm
might conjure visions of
corn planted in neat rows,
Luke Fitzpatrick’s acreage
looks, feels and functions
more like wetlands. Chirps
and squawks emanate from
the ponds covering his patch
of land just a short drive
from Salem.
Fitzpatrick called out
avian creatures by name as
he maneuvered an off -road
vehicle around the farm on a
sunny Thursday this spring.
Stilt sandpiper. Cinnamon
teal. Western meadowlark,
Oregon’s state bird.
He pulled to a stop, got
out and dipped into a duck
blind fi lled with decoy mal-
lards and rolling desk chairs
to gaze out over his crop
growing beneath the glassy
surface of the water.
“I’m tied to the land,” he
said. “I love it out here.”
Fitzpatrick is a fi sh
farmer. He raises and sells
warm-water species like
bass, bluegill, crappie and
catfi sh through a practice
called aquaculture. It’s basi-
cally just farming in water,
and it’s used to grow a vari-
ety of fi nfi sh, shellfi sh and
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Luke Fitzpatrick and his mom, Kathy Bridges, walk the berms between fi sh ponds at Santiam
Valley Ranch in Turner.
aquatic plants.
Aquaculture has become
a much bigger part of the
global food system in recent
years. The world now pro-
duces more seafood on
farms than it catches wild, by
volume, and the fi sh farm-
ing industry is still growing
rapidly.
The United States is the
world’s leading consumer of
farmed seafood. It’s also one
of the smallest producers,
but federal agencies and uni-
versities are investing mil-
lions of dollars in aquacul-
ture research, development
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and technology to try to
change that — and some in
Oregon are hoping the state
can cash in.
Starting from
the bottom
Fitzpatrick’s fi sh farm in
Turner is one of the larger
ones in Oregon, but his crops
are mostly destined for peo-
ple’s ponds rather than their
plates.
While shellfi sh aquacul-
ture has long held a place in
the Northwest, other types
of fi sh farming have histor-
ically been tough business
here — especially in the
Beaver State. Oregon ranks
well behind neighbors Cali-
fornia, Washington state and
Idaho in its production of
food fi sh.
“The United States in
general is kind of behind
the curve a little bit,” said
John Moehl, a McMinn-
ville-based aquaculture spe-
cialist. “And Oregon, within
the United States, is defi -
nitely behind the curve.”
Moehl spent nearly two
decades with the Food and
Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations facili-
tating aquaculture develop-
ment in Central and West
Africa. Aquaculture in Ore-
gon didn’t change much in
that time.
That’s partly because the
state established rules and
laws intended to protect the
integrity of the oceans off
its coast, estuaries and the
inland waterways that twist
and wind across the land-
scape. Both ocean maricul-
ture and inland aquaculture
See Aquaculture, Page A3