PacFIN 20-AUG-99 14:05 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 517 2741 2421 5679 8955 4949 7969 Longspine THDS 24 447 681 1152 3733 1465 2261 Shortspine THDS 29 200 271 500 805 826 1202 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 193 966 657 1816 3475 1247 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 59 60 111 230 2940 1341 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 120 120 117 201 Lingcod 34 118 93 245 356 279 348 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 91 177 _ 268 500 447 586 Widow Rockfish 347 1497 417 2261 3962 2489 3799 SBTS+URCK V&C 838 1823 _ 2661 4588 3960 5079 Yellowtail V&C 440 1005 _ 1445 2407 1664 2183 Canary rockfish V&C 93 254 _ 347 689 693 776 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 197 61 _ 258 338 406 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 243 848 1091 1396 2949 3813 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 628 628 3651 1149 1401 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 4 150 154 729 1160 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 247 1626 1873 5258 6655 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 52 55 150 95 142 Pacific Whiting 6626 42677 1282 50585 83800 70696 87861 *Estimates Thru 14AUG 14AUG 14AUG HARD DATA THRU 6/99 7/99 4/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 18-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.