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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Sheriff tells Oregon standoff backers to stay out of arrest Fishermen want state to halt gillnet ban By ERIC MORTENSON Capital Bureau SALEM — Commercial gillnetters said Oregon should halt its phased-in ban of their VDOPRQ ¿VKLQJ PHWKRG LQ WKH main channel of the Columbia River. Speaking to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlfe Commission on Friday, panelists representing gillnetters said DOWHUQDWLYH FRPPHUFLDO ¿VKLQJ methods are expensive or unproven, and plans to develop salmon runs in side channels show little promise. $VWRULD¿VKHUPDQ-LP:HOOV president of Salmon for All, said RQO\ ELJ PLJUDWRU\ ¿VK UHWXUQV the past couple years have kept gillnetters operating. He said limiting gillnetting to the Columbia’s side channel sloughs will cost commercial anglers two-thirds of their income. “We’ve been lucky to have big runs,” Wells said. “Our income is coming off the main- stem. We need to be there.” He and others asked the commission to halt implementa- tion of the main channel gillnet- ting ban, which takes full effect in 2017. The commission wasn’t scheduled to take action Friday, but invited panels to speak on the issue. The management plan was approved by the Oregon Legislature in 2013. In addition to shunting gillnetting to side channels, it allocates 70 percent of salmon catch to recreational anglers this year and 80 percent next year. The gillnetting ban has polit- ical backers, as well. In a March 14 letter, state Sens. Fred Girod and Rod Monroe urged the ODFW Commission to “continue implementing this common sense plan.” The senators praised the economic impact of a gillnetting ban and said more selective ¿VKLQJ PHWKRGV ³DUH FULWLFDO WR Photo courtesy WDFW conserving wild salmon popula- Gillnetters harvesting salmon in 2013. Commercial fisher- tions and maintaining hatchery men on the Columbia want the Oregon Fish and Wildlife production.” Commission to halt the ban of gillnetting. Salmon For All representa- 6SRUWV¿VKLQJJURXSVOHGE\ River salmon and steelhead tives respond that the commer- the Coastal Conservation Asso- stocks listed under the (federal) cial industry has lost part of its Endangered Species Act, we all valuable spring and summer ciation, take the opposite view. More than two-dozen backers, know that non-selective gillnet Chinook harvest, side channels many of them wearing red ¿VKHULHV KDYH QR SODFH LQ WKH haven’t been improved as prom- CCA caps, attended the ODFW future of our Columbia River ised and alternative gear such as Commission meeting to support ¿VKHULHV´ WKH &&$ VDLG RQ LWV seines is prohibitively expensive. the Columbia River Harvest website. Group member Irene Martin said The CCA argues that sports- the management change was Management Plan adopted by Oregon and Washington in 2013. ¿VKLQJ EULQJV PRUH PRQH\ WR based on a policy decision that 6SRUWV ¿VKLQJ JURXSV DUJXH river communities. Guide fees, turned out wrong. that gillnetting is an indiscrim- license fees, hotel stays and other “We’ve seen a lot of heartache inate method that catches and income circulate as recreational in our communities,” Martin kills salmon whether they are anglers have greater access to said. “Policy without science is a salmon in the lower Columbia, gamble. We gambled the science hatchery raised or wild. “With over a dozen Columbia the organization maintains. would work.” HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The last named defendant in the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge was still at large 7XHVGD\GUDZLQJFDOOVIRUVXSSRUWHUVWRÀRFN to his Montana hometown and a local sheriff to urge outsiders to stay out of it. Supporters of the 41-day standoff this winter over U.S. land restrictions used social media WRUDOO\EHKLQG-DNH5\DQXUJLQJWKHVKHULIIWR resist federal efforts to apprehend him and for people to head to the small northwestern town of Plains to pray with Ryan’s family. Sanders County Sheriff Tom Rummel, WU\LQJ WR KHDG RII DQ\ QHZ DUPHG FRQÀLFWV warned standoff supporters to stay away during negotiations for Ryan’s arrest. “There is no standoff, and I want to keep it that way,” Rummel told The Associated Press. “I don’t need anybody showing up in my county that’s only going to add tension to the situation.” A federal judge released Ryan’s name Monday as the 26th defendant charged in connection with the occupation at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Ryan and another man are accused of using heavy equipment to dig a trench through a Native American archae- ological site at the refuge. He and Travis Cox were the only people facing charges who had not been arrested by Tuesday morning. The sheriff, like the occupation supporters, LVZDU\RIIHGHUDORI¿FLDOV5XPPHORQFHJDYH his support to failed legislation in Montana that would have required any federal agent to get written permission from a sheriff before making an arrest or conducting a search in that sheriff’s jurisdiction. However, he has sought to be a facilitator in this case. In response to Ryan’s supporters, Rummel released a statement Monday saying he intends to provide for Ryan’s safety and rights. He said an attorney hired by Ryan’s family is working with the FBI on the charges. Ryan’s mother, Roxsanna Ryan, said she does not know where her son is. A few of Ryan’s friends have shown up at their home to wait with the family, but she declined to give details during a brief interview with the AP. “We’re just waiting and waiting on some- thing to happen,” she said. “Until that happens, we’re not going to reveal a lot.” Ryan participated in the armed standoff that ODXQFKHG -DQ WR GHPDQG WKH JRYHUQPHQW to turn over public lands to local control and oppose prison terms for two ranchers convicted RIVHWWLQJ¿UHV7KHRFFXSDWLRQHQGHG)HE with the surrender of four holdouts. Ryan faces charges of depredation of govern- PHQW SURSHUW\ FRQVSLUDF\ WR LPSHGH RI¿FHUV and possession of weapons in a federal facility. 6WDWHDJFRXOGEHQH¿WIURPLPSURYHG&XEDUHODWLRQV By ALEX PAUL Albany Democrat-Herald ALBANY — It’s too early to tell what will come from this week’s visit by President Barack Obama and his family to Cuba — both politically and econom- ically — but one outcome could be increased agricultural sales of Oregon products to the island. Politically, the United States slapped a trade embargo on the Caribbean island of 11 million residents after Fidel Castro’s guerrilla army took control in 1959 and allied with communist China and Russia. But in reality, more than $300 million in U.S. agricultural prod- ucts were exported to Cuba in 2014 under the Trade Sanctions and Export Enhancement Act of 2000. In fact, the United States was the leading exporter of agricul- tural products to Cuba for nine of 11 years since 2000, topping out at $658 million in 2008. Leading exports have been chicken, corn and soybean meal. An estimated 70 to 80 percent of all food consumed by Cubans is imported. President Obama spent two years in secret talks with Cuban RI¿FLDOV DQG LQ 'HFHPEHU announced that diplomatic relationships would be restored. A symbol of that effort was the recent reopening of the U.S. embassy in Cuba. Bruce Pokarney of the Oregon Department of Agriculture said that although other states in the Southeast or along the Eastern Seaboard would have an easier trade path to Cuba, just 90 miles away from Florida, the expanded Panama Canal has made the WULS IURP WKH 3DFL¿F 1RUWKZHVW to Cuba more economically feasible. “Obviously, our top market is Asia,” Pokarney said. “But we are always open to looking at new markets. It’s a situation where we want to maintain H[LVWLQJPDUNHWVDQGWR¿QGQHZ ones.” Pokarney said Oregon could play a role in providing specialty products such as hazelnuts, which are on a marked upswing among products grown in Oregon. New hazelnut orchards are popping up throughout the mid-valley. Oregon wines could also be welcomed in Cuba, if not neces- sarily for its own residents but IRUWKHÀRRGRIWRXULVWVH[SHFWHG to jump from last year’s 3.5 million. The number of tourists from the United States jumped 77 percent last year alone. Those tourists generated almost $2 billion in revenue, or more than 10 percent of the country’s total gross domestic product. Oregon products that could likely see increased exports include wine, craft beer, blueber- ries, apples, pears, cherries and beef. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the European Union and Brazil are Cuba’s leading agricultural part- ners, with the United States third. The European Union and Canada are Cuba’s largest supplier of wheat with more than $170 million and $67 million in sales, respectively. The United States has not shipped wheat to Cuba since 2011. Argentina and Brazil were the largest corn exporters and the U.S. was third with $28 million in sales. The United States had been the country’s largest exporter of corn from 2002 to 2012, reaching 64 percent of the country’s corn supply in 7KDW¿JXUHGURSSHGWR percent in 2014. Other major exporters to Cuba are Vietnam and Brazil, which supply the majority of the country’s rice. 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