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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
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main channel of the Columbia
River.
Speaking to the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlfe
Commission on Friday, panelists
representing gillnetters said
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methods are expensive or
unproven, and plans to develop
salmon runs in side channels
show little promise.
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president of Salmon for All, said
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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,
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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
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to turn over public lands to local control and
oppose prison terms for two ranchers convicted
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with the surrender of four holdouts.
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and possession of weapons in a federal facility.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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percent in 2014.
Other major exporters to
Cuba are Vietnam and Brazil,
which supply the majority of the
country’s rice. The United States
once supplied up to 40 percent
of Cuba’s rice needs, but has not
exported rice to Cuba since 2009.
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today,
except more clouds in the north; a stray
shower in the mountains.
Cascades: Occasional rain and drizzle in
central parts today; a shower elsewhere.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today;
warmer in central parts.
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central parts.
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today; warmer in central parts and near the
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High 91° in Presidio, Texas
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