PacFIN 17-AUG-99 17:00 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 JUL THRU DEC Dover sole 489 2614 2229 5332 8955 4290 7919 Longspine THDS 20 426 601 1047 3733 1287 2323 Shortspine THDS 24 192 242 458 803 663 1127 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 169 900 578 1647 3475 1047 2024 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 34 45 43 122 2516 89 1492 Sablefish Conception _ _ 113 113 95 198 Lingcod 20 79 60 159 275 155 245 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 83 171 _ 254 500 363 575 Widow Rockfish 336 1470 385 2191 3777 1958 3596 SBTS+URCK V&C 703 1611 _ 2314 4033 2817 4584 Yellowtail V&C 368 903 _ 1271 2080 1125 1961 Canary rockfish V&C 77 201 _ 278 618 500 691 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 161 47 _ 208 167 292 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 155 557 712 941 3163 4293 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 526 526 2461 504 657 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 4 145 149 729 42 44 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 159 1228 1387 3709 4994 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 2 34 36 101 40 70 Pacific Whiting 4973 37591 1251 43815 49758 84824 *Estimates Thru 31JUL 31JUL HARD DATA THRU 6/99 7/99 4/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-AUG-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. In the U.S. Vancouver and Columbia areas there is also a certain amount of unspecified rockfish (URCK) reported. It is assumed that the vast majority of the fish contained within the URCK category are within the sebastes complex. So, SBTS+URCK is also the best estimate of catch for sebastes complex for the Van&Col area. Sebastes So. includes all sebastes spp. except widow rockfish, POP, shortbelly rockfish, chilipepper, and splitnose rockfish. Thornyheads are also excluded.