PacFIN 11-OCT-99 12:00 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 OCT THRU DEC Dover sole 604 3235 2723 6562 8955 6605 7986 Longspine THDS 25 554 763 1342 3733 2005 2274 Shortspine THDS 50 239 335 624 805 1076 1219 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 242 1243 782 2267 3475 1710 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 625 1296 547 2468 2940 1588 1634 Sablefish Conception _ _ 131 131 164 204 Lingcod 42 160 110 312 356 331 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 118 266 _ 384 500 544 584 Widow Rockfish 390 1726 431 2547 3962 3329 3888 SBTS+URCK V&C 1043 2579 _ 3622 4588 4731 5046 Yellowtail V&C 563 1497 _ 2060 2407 1988 2127 Canary rockfish V&C 119 339 _ 458 689 798 804 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 262 86 _ 348 630 655 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 302 978 1280 1396 3604 3843 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 732 732 3651 1315 1431 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 152 157 729 1334 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 307 1862 2169 6253 6715 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 58 61 150 129 148 Pacific Whiting 9240 71779 705 81724 83800 87855 87856 *Estimates Thru 02OCT 30SEP 02OCT 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.