PacFIN 13-AUG-99 17:02 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 AUG THRU DEC Dover sole 491 2662 2340 5493 8955 4949 7969 Longspine THDS 23 428 654 1105 3733 1467 2265 Shortspine THDS 29 193 262 484 805 824 1197 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 177 920 622 1719 3475 1247 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 52 53 104 209 2940 1341 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 120 120 117 201 Lingcod 31 109 84 224 356 279 348 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 82 171 _ 253 500 447 586 Widow Rockfish 345 1477 406 2228 3962 2516 3827 SBTS+URCK V&C 764 1717 _ 2481 4588 3960 5079 Yellowtail V&C 404 928 _ 1332 2407 1664 2183 Canary rockfish V&C 87 239 _ 326 689 693 776 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 162 61 _ 223 338 406 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 243 799 1042 1396 3137 4103 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 592 592 3651 1018 1268 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 4 148 152 729 1085 1266 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 247 1539 1786 5240 6637 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 48 51 150 89 135 Pacific Whiting 5590 37591 1281 44462 83800 70696 87861 *Estimates Thru 07AUG 07AUG 07AUG HARD DATA THRU 5/99 7/99 4/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 13-AUG-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.