PacFIN 15-SEP-99 10:24 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 SEP THRU DEC Dover sole 548 3019 2532 6099 8955 5641 7986 Longspine THDS 24 514 724 1262 3733 1704 2280 Shortspine THDS 41 224 301 566 805 959 1212 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 212 1151 709 2072 3475 1434 2051 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 603 1263 518 2384 2940 1511 1634 Sablefish Conception _ _ 122 122 140 204 Lingcod 38 144 103 285 356 307 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 99 238 _ 337 500 494 586 Widow Rockfish 351 1638 427 2416 3962 2876 3804 SBTS+URCK V&C 903 2342 _ 3245 4588 4417 5079 Yellowtail V&C 466 1345 _ 1811 2407 1882 2183 Canary rockfish V&C 98 305 _ 403 689 761 776 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 239 86 _ 325 380 406 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 302 916 1218 1396 3347 3857 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 641 641 3651 1250 1423 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 155 160 729 1250 1445 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 307 1712 2019 5847 6725 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 52 55 150 120 148 Pacific Whiting 7788 65812 1307 74907 83800 83890 87861 *Estimates Thru 28AUG 04SEP 04SEP HARD DATA THRU 7/99 8/99 5/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 14-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, 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.