PacFIN 22-OCT-99 14:30 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 OCT THRU DEC Dover sole 654 3468 2790 6912 8955 6605 7986 Longspine THDS 25 585 776 1386 3733 2005 2274 Shortspine THDS 53 269 344 666 805 1076 1219 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 261 1352 803 2416 3475 1710 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 628 1291 597 2516 2940 1588 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 142 142 164 204 Lingcod 42 165 126 333 356 331 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 129 275 _ 404 500 544 584 Widow Rockfish 420 1800 433 2653 3962 3329 3888 SBTS+URCK V&C 1050 2649 _ 3699 4588 4733 5047 Yellowtail V&C 565 1528 _ 2093 2407 1988 2127 Canary rockfish V&C 124 351 _ 475 689 798 804 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 257 82 _ 339 632 656 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 349 941 1290 1396 3604 3843 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 700 700 3651 1315 1431 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 134 139 729 1334 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 354 1775 2129 6253 6715 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 57 60 150 129 148 Pacific Whiting 8981 73135 476 82592 83800 87855 87856 *Estimates Thru 16OCT 16OCT 09OCT 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.