PacFIN 24-SEP-99 09:10 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 579 3073 2613 6265 8955 5641 7986 Longspine THDS 25 519 741 1285 3733 1704 2280 Shortspine THDS 45 227 324 596 805 959 1212 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 230 1172 753 2155 3475 1434 2051 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 609 1266 529 2404 2940 1511 1634 Sablefish Conception _ _ 124 124 140 204 Lingcod 40 149 102 291 356 307 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 110 247 _ 357 500 494 586 Widow Rockfish 377 1653 423 2453 3962 2876 3804 SBTS+URCK V&C 981 2450 _ 3431 4588 4417 5079 Yellowtail V&C 527 1427 _ 1954 2407 1882 2183 Canary rockfish V&C 113 315 _ 428 689 761 776 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 249 86 _ 335 380 406 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 302 938 1240 1396 3347 3857 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 703 703 3651 1250 1423 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 145 150 729 1250 1445 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 307 1786 2093 5847 6725 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 55 58 150 120 148 Pacific Whiting 9236 71181 705 81122 83800 83890 87861 *Estimates Thru 18SEP 18SEP 18SEP HARD DATA THRU 7/99 8/99 6/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 22-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.