PacFIN 19-NOV-99 09:33 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 OCT THRU DEC Dover sole 682 3751 3129 7562 8955 6567 7946 Longspine THDS 27 644 835 1506 3733 2056 2338 Shortspine THDS 48 287 349 684 803 1019 1147 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 267 1422 894 2583 3475 1691 2030 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 621 1203 301 2125 2516 1476 1492 Sablefish Conception _ _ 144 144 163 201 Lingcod 30 121 82 233 275 229 247 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 135 279 _ 414 500 544 583 Widow Rockfish 465 2114 461 3040 3777 3224 3724 SBTS+URCK V&C 975 2441 _ 3416 4033 4323 4634 Yellowtail V&C 522 1462 _ 1984 2080 1823 1961 Canary rockfish V&C 118 294 _ 412 618 721 728 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 209 61 _ 270 517 541 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 226 624 850 941 4012 4283 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 662 662 2461 616 669 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 138 143 729 41 41 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 231 1424 1655 4669 4993 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 43 46 101 60 70 Pacific Whiting 9100 73169 496 82765 87855 87856 *Estimates Thru 31OCT 31OCT HARD DATA THRU 9/99 10/99 8/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-NOV-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.