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WEEKEND EDITION

Friday December 6 2019 www.currypilot.com

Brookings, Oregon

SERVING CURRY COUNTY SINCE 1946

Fort Dick man surrenders after 6 hours R

Staff Report

onald Berry, 56, was apprehended Wednesday after a nearly six-hour standoff with multiple lawenforcement agencies. According to a press release on the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, Berry was wanted for a probation violation in Del Norte County

and for outstanding warrants in Curry County. He also allegedly recently evaded law enforcement by fleeing during a traffic stop. When Del Norte County deputies attempted to contact Berry, according to the press release, he assaulted them with a Bobcat tractor and

Law enforcement officers approach the Fort Dick house where suspect Ronald Berry is barricaded inside. Courtesy photo.

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OREGON’S OLDEST (MAYBE)

FISH HATCHERY STILL GOING STRONG IN GOLD BEACH By Linda Pinkham Staff Writer

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ore than a dozen volunteers, supporters and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) employees were at Indian Creek Hatchery in Gold Beach on Nov. 13 for the season’s first spawning of Rogue River hatchery chinook salmon. “First spawning (brings out) quite a crew,” said David Sophusson, president of Curry Anadromous Fishermen (CAF). “But after the third or fourth time, we need to recruit more volunteers.” For this first spawning, CAF, along with ODFW, spawned four female salmon, fertilized their eggs with milt from four males, and placed the spawn into incubator trays. As of Dec. 3, the group had spawned 36 fish, 18 of which were females. The program is authorized through the

Rogue Fall Chinook Management splashing and thrashing. Wells lifts every one of the fish, Plan, adopted in 2013 by the Oregon “Wild female, over,” Wells yells, which average 20 to 40 pounds. Fish and Wildlife Commission. as he releases the fish back to the That’s a ton or two of salmon! The spawning continues weekly, holding pen. A volunteer keeps track Seventy-eight of the fish came as fish continue to become from seining the “ripe,” until sometime in Rogue River; mid to late December. the remainder The goal is to produce are fish that 90,000 smolt (fish ready to returned to head out to the ocean) to the hatchery be released at the mouth of on their own. Indian Creek in the Rogue More Indian estuary late next August. Creek fish will The work isn’t easy. arrive with the ODFW experimental bioseasonal rains. logical aide Andrew Wells “Today’s climbs into the waist-deep usually the tank containing all of the fish longest day, bethat have been brought into cause we have the spawning program this to go through year. With him is 75-year-old all of the fish Joan Cooper, who is slightly to find which The present-day hatchery building at Indian Creek shorter in stature – so, she’s ones are most was actually constructed in the 1980s, although the chest-deep in the water. ready,” SophusJoan Cooper is the official site dates back to 1906 when fish canning baron son said. “Once Robert Hume established his fourth hatchery. He “fish whacker” for each fish the spawning built his first hatchery on the Rogue River in 1877. Wells selects as ready to has started, Photo by Linda Pinkham. spawn. “Every year, she says someone has she’s not coming back, but to be out here she always does,” Sophusson said. of the fish as they’re being sorted. every day to make sure everything “The water is very cold.” “Hatchery male, over,” as the sortWith each netful of fish, Wells ing process for the 101 fish present More Hatchery on Page A3 and Cooper are drenched by the fish continues for nearly two hours.

Domestic dispute sends 3 to Crescent City hospital A

Following the fire, crews removed large portions of the boat’s rigging to allow it to be towed to a repair yard. Photo by Jeremy C. Ruark.

Boat fire cause ‘undetermined’ I

By Jeremy C. Ruark Pilot Editor

nvestigators said they have yet to find the precise cause of a Brookings Harbor fire Monday morning that heavily damaged the Miss Pacific, an 85-foot

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commercial fishing vessel. “The cause is undetermined,” Harbor Fire Interim Chief Thomas Sorrentino told The Pilot. “We believe it could be an electrical issue. “The fire started on the port-side rear of the cabin and went out the back to

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the stern of the boat, which caught the net reel on fire.” Sorrentino could not estimate the financial damages to the vessel. Witnesses said someone More Fire on Page A3

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By Linda Pinkham Staff Writer

domestic dispute on Sunday evening sent three people, including a baby, to a Crescent City hospital. According to Curry County Sheriff’s Lieutenant John Ensley, the dispute between a Brookings-area couple - Nicholas Wymer, 25, and his wife, Kathryn Wymer, 22 - occurred at the Harbor Chevron station, 16258 U.S. Highway 101. Ensley said 911 dispatchers received an emergency call at 6:34 p.m. for a “dropped baby” at the gas station. According to witnesses interviewed by a sheriff’s deputy, the mother allegedly had tackled the father, who was holding the baby, and all three fell to the ground. Nicholas Wymer told the deputy that overall the one-year-old child was fine, but he had been injured in the fall. Nicholas Wymer and the child were transported to Sutter Coast Hospital in Crescent City. The deputy then reportedly went to the Dutch Brothers coffee shop location in the shopping center on the far side of the highway, to speak with Kathryn Wymer. She proceeded to run back toward the high-

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way, stop at the curb and make a motion that she had stabbed herself, Ensley said. As the deputy approached her, she retraced her steps towards the Dutch Brothers location, where he repeatedly ordered her to drop the knife. She did not respond to the deputy’s orders, said Ensley, and began stabbing herself repeatedly. The deputy requested backup. Additional deputies, officers from the Brookings Police Department and Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers arrived to assist. In addition, an ambulance was requested. Ensley said Kathryn Wymer fell to the ground and the deputy was able to remove a 3-inch knife from the area and begin administering first aid, helped by a Brookings police officer and an OSP trooper, until the ambulance arrived. Kathryn Wymer resisted and was uncooperative with the first-responders, Ensley said. She was taken to Sutter Coast Hospital in Crescent City and later flown from Sutter to another hospital because of the severity of her injuries, according to officials. The investigation is continuing, Ensley said, adding that Kathryn Wymer’s injuries were too severe to allow investigators to interview her. The current status of all three patients was unavailable, given patient privacy regulations.

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