PacFIN 01-OCT-99 15:30 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 591 3137 2680 6408 8955 5641 7986 Longspine THDS 25 530 756 1311 3733 1706 2274 Shortspine THDS 48 233 330 611 805 957 1219 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 237 1199 771 2207 3475 1433 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 621 1269 539 2429 2940 1512 1634 Sablefish Conception _ _ 126 126 140 204 Lingcod 41 156 107 304 356 307 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 115 256 _ 371 500 493 584 Widow Rockfish 385 1700 428 2513 3962 2903 3888 SBTS+URCK V&C 1027 2516 _ 3543 4588 4414 5046 Yellowtail V&C 555 1467 _ 2022 2407 1849 2127 Canary rockfish V&C 119 329 _ 448 689 789 804 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 258 86 _ 344 599 655 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 302 956 1258 1396 3325 3843 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 723 723 3651 1251 1431 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 146 151 729 1246 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 307 1825 2132 5822 6715 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 56 59 150 120 148 Pacific Whiting 9236 71779 705 81720 83800 83890 87856 *Estimates Thru 25SEP 25SEP 25SEP HARD DATA THRU 7/99 8/99 6/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 01-OCT-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.