PacFIN 20-DEC-99 16:33 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 NOV THRU DEC Dover sole 710 4058 3344 8112 8955 7207 7946 Longspine THDS 29 681 896 1606 3733 2214 2338 Shortspine THDS 49 306 369 724 803 1086 1147 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 268 1521 968 2757 3475 1866 2030 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 623 1205 319 2147 2516 1485 1492 Sablefish Conception _ _ 151 151 183 201 Lingcod 31 123 85 239 275 241 247 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 137 265 _ 402 500 565 583 Widow Rockfish 489 2442 488 3419 3777 3536 3724 SBTS+URCK V&C 969 2445 _ 3414 4033 4504 4634 Yellowtail V&C 520 1458 _ 1978 2080 1906 1961 Canary rockfish V&C 118 294 _ 412 618 726 728 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 208 61 _ 269 531 541 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 228 657 885 941 4199 4286 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 687 687 2461 650 669 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 141 146 729 41 41 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 233 1485 1718 4890 4996 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 43 46 101 70 70 Pacific Whiting 9099 73011 496 82606 87856 87856 *Estimates Thru 30NOV 30NOV HARD DATA THRU 10/99 11/99 9/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 20-DEC-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.