PacFIN 21-MAY-99 14:50 Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report Limited Entry Best Estimates* of 1999 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons 1999 1998 TOTALS Wash Ore Calif Total OY THRU APR THRU DEC Dover sole 347 1732 1472 3551 8955 2102 7931 Longspine THDS 11 225 420 656 3733 531 2261 Shortspine THDS 16 110 164 290 803 285 1189 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 46 435 416 897 3475 421 2024 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 8 4 15 27 2516 22 1487 Sablefish Conception _ _ 118 118 34 198 Lingcod 4 29 21 54 275 58 246 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 24 69 _ 93 500 145 575 Widow Rockfish 290 1148 287 1725 3777 610 3565 Sebastes Complex V&C 178 621 _ 799 4033 918 4315 Yellowtail V&C 142 341 _ 483 2080 352 1982 Canary rockfish V&C 8 65 _ 73 618 158 691 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 26 6 _ 32 42 296 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 45 263 308 941 847 2765 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 291 291 2461 401 1006 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 1 79 80 729 533 1225 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 46 633 679 1781 4996 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ _ 20 20 101 18 75 Pacific Whiting _ 9 6 15 1921 84824 *Estimates Thru 30APR 30APR 30APR HARD DATA THRU 3/99 4/99 1/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 21-MAY-99. OY = Optimum Yield The OYs are commercial (LE and OA) guidelines only, the anticipated recreational catches are not included here. The OY for Pacific Whiting is the total U.S. coastwide shoreside allocation. The nontrawl (NTW) sablefish catch displayed on this report includes catches for both the limited entry and open access fisheries. The nontrawl limited- entry sablefish harvest guideline is 2517 metric tons and the open-access sablefish harvest guideline is 423 metric tons. Starting in 1995 this non-trawl sablefish catch statistic no longer includes treaty Indian catch. V&C = Van&Col = U.S. Vancouver & Columbia INPFC areas combined V&C&E&M = U.S. Vancouver & Columbia & Eureka & Monterey INPFC areas combined E&M&C = Eureka & Monterey & Conception INPFC areas combined Sebastes Complex includes all sebastes spp. except widow rockfish, POP, shortbelly rockfish. Thornyheads are also excluded. SBTS+URCK = Sebastes Complex plus Unspecified Rockfish. Due to the large amount of rockfish catch classified as unspecified rockfish (primarily in the Monterey and Conception areas) SBTS+URCK is the best estimate of catch for Sebastes Complex for the E&M&C area. Sebastes So. includes all sebastes spp. except widow rockfish, POP, shortbelly rockfish, chilipepper, and splitnose rockfish. Thornyheads are also excluded.