PacFIN 19-OCT-99 12:52 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 SEP THRU DEC Dover sole 601 3231 2670 6502 8955 5605 7946 Longspine THDS 25 559 751 1335 3733 1742 2338 Shortspine THDS 44 253 325 622 803 916 1147 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 240 1247 772 2259 3475 1417 2030 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 590 1198 465 2253 2516 1430 1492 Sablefish Conception _ _ 131 131 139 201 Lingcod 30 113 75 218 275 206 247 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 116 261 _ 377 500 493 583 Widow Rockfish 390 1687 410 2487 3777 2807 3724 SBTS+URCK V&C 970 2419 _ 3389 4033 4006 4634 Yellowtail V&C 527 1451 _ 1978 2080 1685 1961 Canary rockfish V&C 121 292 _ 413 618 712 728 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 221 60 _ 281 486 541 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 213 623 836 941 3753 4286 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 610 610 2461 587 669 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 133 138 729 39 41 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 218 1366 1584 4379 4996 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 39 42 101 55 70 Pacific Whiting 8979 73135 475 82589 83890 87856 *Estimates Thru 30SEP 30SEP HARD DATA THRU 8/99 9/99 7/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 19-OCT-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.