PacFIN 18-JUN-99 14:09 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 JUN THRU DEC Dover sole 416 2134 1884 4434 8955 3560 7982 Longspine THDS 14 308 503 825 3733 1022 2265 Shortspine THDS 22 141 184 347 805 559 1197 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 103 698 568 1369 3475 832 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 18 35 65 118 2940 85 1634 Sablefish Conception _ _ 141 141 74 201 Lingcod 14 62 48 124 356 204 348 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 57 115 _ 172 500 288 586 Widow Rockfish 294 1274 311 1879 3962 1543 3827 Sebastes Complex V&C 296 1028 _ 1324 4588 2200 4697 Yellowtail V&C 202 544 _ 746 2407 875 2205 Canary rockfish V&C 28 132 _ 160 689 441 776 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 81 17 _ 98 191 409 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 114 541 655 1396 2306 4095 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 396 396 3651 867 1268 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 1 105 106 729 990 1266 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 115 1042 1157 4163 6629 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 1 38 39 150 62 135 Pacific Whiting _ 9 96 105 21796 87861 *Estimates Thru 12JUN 12JUN 12JUN HARD DATA THRU 4/99 5/99 2/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 16-JUN-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.