PacFIN 31-AUG-99 16:11 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 532 2783 2469 5784 8955 4954 7986 Longspine THDS 24 453 696 1173 3733 1477 2280 Shortspine THDS 34 203 284 521 805 830 1212 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 199 980 689 1868 3475 1248 2051 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 254 64 355 673 2940 1341 1634 Sablefish Conception _ _ 115 115 118 204 Lingcod 35 122 98 255 356 280 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 91 178 _ 269 500 447 586 Widow Rockfish 349 1512 417 2278 3962 2494 3804 SBTS+URCK V&C 859 1877 _ 2736 4588 3960 5079 Yellowtail V&C 450 1046 _ 1496 2407 1664 2183 Canary rockfish V&C 94 258 _ 352 689 693 776 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 202 61 _ 263 338 406 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 243 855 1098 1396 2973 3857 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 625 625 3651 1170 1423 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 4 148 152 729 1161 1445 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 247 1628 1875 5304 6725 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 52 55 150 100 148 Pacific Whiting 7287 49280 1306 57873 83800 70696 87861 *Estimates Thru 21AUG 21AUG 21AUG HARD DATA THRU 6/99 7/99 5/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 30-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.