PacFIN 27-SEP-99 10:54 Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report Open Access 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 5 74 1 80 43 51 Longspine THDS _ 2 _ 2 3 4 Shortspine THDS 4 3 8 15 3 7 8 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 2 42 1 45 22 24 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 28 95 80 203 423 59 144 Sablefish Conception _ _ 6 6 1 3 Lingcod 9 43 26 78 80 101 103 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C _ 7 _ 7 10 10 Widow Rockfish _ 17 17 34 184 184 263 SBTS+URCK V&C 64 190 _ 254 555 469 496 Yellowtail V&C 30 58 _ 88 327 205 222 Canary rockfish V&C 3 50 _ 53 71 85 86 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 30 21 _ 51 109 114 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 122 274 396 455 996 1372 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 66 66 1190 231 280 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ _ 2 2 1 5 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 122 342 464 1228 1657 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 1 16 17 49 45 65 Pacific Whiting _ _ _ _ 2406 3038 *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.