PacFIN 30-JUL-99 16:04 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 JUL THRU DEC Dover sole 473 2530 2072 5075 8955 4328 7969 Longspine THDS 20 405 560 985 3733 1266 2265 Shortspine THDS 26 182 223 431 805 693 1197 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 159 920 504 1583 3475 1061 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 38 55 73 166 2940 138 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 110 110 97 201 Lingcod 26 100 69 195 356 255 348 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 76 193 _ 269 500 373 586 Widow Rockfish 333 1430 404 2167 3962 2088 3827 Yellowtail V&C 348 796 _ 1144 2407 1293 2183 Canary rockfish V&C 76 224 _ 300 689 582 776 SBTS+URCK V&C 657 1568 _ 2225 4588 3225 5079 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 201 660 861 1396 2818 4103 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 504 504 3651 967 1268 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 3 149 152 729 1030 1266 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 204 1313 1517 4815 6637 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 2 41 43 150 77 135 Pacific Whiting 4134 23064 1170 28368 83800 51095 87861 *Estimates Thru 24JUL 24JUL 17JUL HARD DATA THRU 5/99 6/99 3/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 27-JUL-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. 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.