PacFIN 27-SEP-99 10:53 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 AUG THRU DEC Dover sole 547 2945 2500 5992 8955 4911 7935 Longspine THDS 24 512 706 1242 3733 1505 2343 Shortspine THDS 38 221 303 562 803 792 1137 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 211 1109 720 2040 3475 1225 2025 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 575 1167 431 2173 2516 1282 1491 Sablefish Conception _ _ 116 116 116 201 Lingcod 29 101 70 200 275 179 246 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 100 230 _ 330 500 437 575 Widow Rockfish 354 1621 388 2363 3777 2373 3598 SBTS+URCK V&C 853 2151 _ 3004 4033 3491 4584 Yellowtail V&C 448 1287 _ 1735 2080 1458 1961 Canary rockfish V&C 97 256 _ 353 618 608 691 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 210 65 _ 275 229 292 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 180 617 797 941 3437 4300 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 564 564 2461 536 661 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 136 141 729 42 44 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 185 1317 1502 4015 5005 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 35 38 101 47 70 Pacific Whiting 8106 65812 703 74621 68290 84824 *Estimates Thru 31AUG 31AUG HARD DATA THRU 7/99 8/99 6/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 24-SEP-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, and 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.