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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS April 5, 2016 | 75¢
Port Angeles-Sequim-West End
Navy pier could cost fish farm Official: Project forces early harvest, loss of $6M BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Building a new Navy pier at Ediz Hook could cost a Port Angeles Harbor fish farm $6 million in estimated lost earnings from the end of this year and into 2017, an Icicle Seafoods Inc. vice president said Monday. The company will take the
financial hit by being forced to harvest 30 percent of its Atlantic salmon — about 240,000 fish — by Dec. 1, about two months earlier than usual, when construction begins on the $25 million ballistic missile submarine-escort-vessel dock on the south side of Ediz Hook, Icicle’s Alan Cook said in a telephone interview. As a result, each fish will lose significant mass at a time they
are gaining about 1 pound a month. “The marketplace punishes the smaller fish,” Cook said. Harvest normally starts at 18 months of growth and runs through 22 months before they are removed from the pens, he added. “We’ll have to empty them by Month 20,” he said. “For us, it’s a very clear infringement on our commercial activity. “We feel there should be some compensation, but whether there is or not, I don’t know.” Construction is expected to last 18 months on the $25 million
“For us, it’s a very clear infringement on our commercial activity. We feel there should be some compensation, but whether there is or not, I don’t know.” ALAN COOK, VICE PRESIDENT Icicle Seafoods, Inc. pier project on the southern face of Ediz Hook at Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles, Robin Senner, National Environmental Policy Act coordi-
nator at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, told Clallam County commissioners Monday during their work session. The Navy might compensate Icicle for its loss. “The Navy is exploring ways through which that compensation can occur,” Senner told commissioners. A draft environmental impact statement determined that there was no significant impact from the project. The final environmental impact statement will likely be released by May 31, Senner said. TURN
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Clallam residents to screen nominees
Gone fishing
Panel to rank 5 examiner hopefuls BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Stephen Fofanoff, co-owner of Art and Soul Hospitality, left, and executive chef Brian Lippert, right, are reinvigorating the former Donna’s Fisherman’s Wharf Café, at the east Boat Haven Marina with a larger dining room and expanded hours.
Port Angeles eatery casts line as marina seafood spot New owners plan to focus on locally caught seasonal fish BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A waterfront restaurant at the Port of Port Angeles is being renewed, and the new owners are planning major changes to the way the eatery does business. Donna’s Fisherman’s Wharf Café at 826 Boat Haven Drive is now open as the Jig and Lure Fish Co., after being sold to Art and Soul Hospitality LLC on March 12.
Current hours are 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Mondays through Fridays for breakfast and lunch. Jig and Lure will soon be open for dinner and weekends, and will feature fresh, locally caught seasonal fish, along with the restaurant’s traditional farmstyle breakfasts and burger lunches, said Steven Fofanoff, co-owner of Art and Soul. Dinner hours begin April 18. Reservations for dinner can be made online at www.jigandlure.com. It is recommended diners reserve a table. Weekend hours — including a fresh seafood weekend brunch — will be available as soon as an interior remodel is complete, likely by Memorial Day weekend, Fofanoff said. Fofanoff and Chris Warnock own Art
and Soul, which also manages Domaine Madeleine Bed and Breakfast, 146 Wildflower Lane east of Port Angeles.
70 years in operation The restaurant at East Boat Haven Marina has been in continuous operation at the same location for at least 70 years, Fofanoff said. Donna and Ron Shepherd ran the Fisherman’s Wharf Café for the past 27 years. Ron Shepherd died in January at the age of 64, and Donna Shepherd put the business up for sale. Fofanoff, Warnock and their executive chef Brian Lippert discovered the restaurant’s availability by chance. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Clallam County has formed an ad hoc panel to screen applicants for county hearing examiner. The 10-member screening committee will review applications and rank the five candidates who are vying for the quasi-judicial position. Hearing examiners adjudicate land-use matters, including appeals of Department of Community Development decisions and a variety of land-use permits. Chapman County commissioners will interview the five candidates, who have not yet been named, based on the results of the committee’s rankings. “We can interview two to five, just depending on how the rankings add up,” Commissioner Mike Chapman said in a Monday work session. “If they’re all kind of lumped in the middle, we can probably just interview them all.” Four of the five applicants are from the Puget Sound region. One is from Clallam County.
Slow start Commissioners sought representatives of the environmental community, building industry and legal profession to serve on the screening panel. Only one candidate, Darlene Schanfald of the Sierra Club North Olympic Group, had expressed an interest in serving as of March 21. Nine others stepped forward after subsequent news reports about the search for panelists, County Administrator Jim Jones said. “Good, quality people came forward and offered their service,” Jones said. Members of the ad hoc committee are Schanfald (environmental), Chris Anderson (no preference), Ted Miller (legal), Selinda Barkhuis (legal), Annie O’Rourke (building), Gene Unger (building), Vernon Frykholm (no preference), Bill Knebes (legal), Scott Headrick (building) and Robert Sextro (environmental). TURN
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