PacFIN 09-APR-99 14:56 Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report Total Fleet Best Estimates* of 1999 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons 1999 1998 TOTALS Wash Ore Calif Total OY THRU MAR THRU DEC Dover sole 284 1331 1137 2752 8955 1630 7982 Longspine THDS 4 149 305 458 3733 359 2265 Shortspine THDS 9 75 112 196 805 195 1197 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 35 284 293 612 3475 282 2053 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 2 2 37 41 2940 19 1630 Sablefish Conception _ _ 118 118 28 201 Lingcod 2 15 15 32 356 55 348 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 15 39 _ 54 500 97 586 Widow Rockfish 244 969 229 1442 3962 431 3827 Sebastes Complex V&C 88 352 _ 440 4588 658 4694 Yellowtail V&C 80 202 _ 282 2407 255 2202 Canary rockfish V&C 2 37 _ 39 689 125 776 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 27 38 _ 65 29 410 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 10 480 490 1396 779 4101 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 217 217 3651 327 1262 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ _ 49 49 729 382 1266 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 10 746 756 1488 6629 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ _ 22 22 150 30 141 Pacific Whiting _ 4 _ 4 21 87861 *Estimates Thru 31MAR 31MAR 31MAR HARD DATA THRU 1/99 2/99 12/98 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-MAR-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, 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. Sebastes So. includes all sebastes spp. except widow rockfish, POP, shortbelly rockfish, chilipepper, and splitnose rockfish. Thornyheads are also excluded.