PacFIN 04-JUN-99 14:25 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 MAY THRU DEC Dover sole 400 1988 1787 4175 8955 2876 7982 Longspine THDS 12 282 480 774 3733 791 2265 Shortspine THDS 20 127 187 334 805 430 1197 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 87 578 502 1167 3475 646 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 13 33 60 106 2940 56 1634 Sablefish Conception _ _ 146 146 55 201 Lingcod 11 50 38 99 356 154 348 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 45 92 _ 137 500 216 586 Widow Rockfish 300 1200 339 1839 3962 1096 3827 Sebastes Complex V&C 264 850 _ 1114 4588 1575 4697 Yellowtail V&C 191 434 _ 625 2407 623 2205 Canary rockfish V&C 21 99 _ 120 689 306 776 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 56 11 _ 67 111 409 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 65 476 541 1396 1814 4095 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 388 388 3651 688 1268 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 1 96 97 729 721 1266 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 66 960 1026 3223 6629 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 1 32 33 150 46 135 Pacific Whiting _ 9 96 105 3109 87861 *Estimates Thru 29MAY 29MAY 29MAY HARD DATA THRU 3/99 4/99 1/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 21-MAY-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.