PacFIN 19-NOV-99 09:34 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 OCT THRU DEC Dover sole 14 84 6 104 39 41 Longspine THDS _ 2 3 5 1 2 Shortspine THDS 6 3 9 18 3 5 5 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 5 44 4 53 18 18 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 34 93 129 256 423 112 142 Sablefish Conception _ _ 11 11 2 3 Lingcod 11 50 40 101 80 102 103 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C _ 7 _ 7 1 1 Widow Rockfish _ 19 22 41 184 162 220 SBTS+URCK V&C 84 215 _ 299 555 409 411 Yellowtail V&C 38 66 _ 104 327 164 165 Canary rockfish V&C 3 56 _ 59 71 76 76 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 42 23 _ 65 115 115 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 149 377 526 455 1262 1363 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 92 92 1190 249 280 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ _ 1 1 1 5 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 149 470 619 1512 1648 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 2 18 20 49 59 65 Pacific Whiting _ _ _ _ 0 0 *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.