PacFIN 27-SEP-99 10:52 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 552 3019 2502 6073 8955 4954 7986 Longspine THDS 24 514 706 1244 3733 1477 2280 Shortspine THDS 42 224 311 577 805 830 1212 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 213 1151 720 2084 3475 1248 2051 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 603 1263 510 2376 2940 1341 1634 Sablefish Conception _ _ 123 123 118 204 Lingcod 38 144 96 278 356 280 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 100 238 _ 338 500 447 586 Widow Rockfish 354 1638 405 2397 3962 2494 3804 SBTS+URCK V&C 917 2342 _ 3259 4588 3960 5079 Yellowtail V&C 479 1345 _ 1824 2407 1664 2183 Canary rockfish V&C 100 305 _ 405 689 693 776 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 240 86 _ 326 338 406 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 302 890 1192 1396 2973 3857 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 631 631 3651 1170 1423 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 139 144 729 1161 1445 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 307 1660 1967 5304 6725 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 51 54 150 100 148 Pacific Whiting 8106 65812 704 74622 83800 70696 87861 *Estimates Thru 31AUG 31AUG 31AUG HARD DATA THRU 7/99 8/99 6/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 24-SEP-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, and 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.