PacFIN 19-OCT-99 12:55 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 609 3311 2672 6592 8955 5641 7986 Longspine THDS 25 561 752 1338 3733 1706 2274 Shortspine THDS 49 256 338 643 805 957 1219 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 243 1292 773 2308 3475 1433 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 616 1287 569 2472 2940 1512 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 142 142 140 204 Lingcod 41 162 123 326 356 307 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 116 268 _ 384 500 493 584 Widow Rockfish 390 1705 431 2526 3962 2903 3888 SBTS+URCK V&C 1043 2628 _ 3671 4588 4415 5047 Yellowtail V&C 562 1516 _ 2078 2407 1849 2127 Canary rockfish V&C 124 347 _ 471 689 789 804 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 255 82 _ 337 600 656 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 349 932 1281 1396 3325 3843 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 692 692 3651 1251 1431 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 133 138 729 1246 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 354 1757 2111 5822 6715 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 56 59 150 120 148 Pacific Whiting 8979 73135 476 82590 83800 83890 87856 *Estimates Thru 30SEP 30SEP 30SEP HARD DATA THRU 8/99 9/99 7/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 19-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.