PacFIN 26-JAN-00 15:49 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 DEC THRU DEC Dover sole 16 84 4 104 41 41 Longspine THDS _ 2 1 3 2 2 Shortspine THDS 6 3 10 19 3 5 5 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 5 44 3 52 18 18 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 35 93 158 286 423 142 142 Sablefish Conception _ _ 12 12 3 3 Lingcod 11 50 50 111 80 103 103 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C _ 7 _ 7 1 1 Widow Rockfish _ 19 19 38 184 220 220 SBTS+URCK (V&C) 86 216 _ 302 555 411 411 Yellowtail V&C 39 66 _ 105 327 165 165 Canary rockfish V&C 3 56 _ 59 71 76 76 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 44 20 _ 64 115 115 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 151 391 542 455 1372 1372 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 94 94 1190 280 280 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ _ 3 3 5 5 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 151 488 639 1657 1657 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 2 19 21 49 65 65 Pacific Whiting _ _ _ _ 0 0 *Estimates Thru 31DEC 31DEC HARD DATA THRU 10/99 12/99 10/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 26-JAN-2000. 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.