PacFIN 05-NOV-99 15:14 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 689 3748 3138 7575 8955 6605 7986 Longspine THDS 27 624 847 1498 3733 2005 2274 Shortspine THDS 55 283 368 706 805 1076 1219 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 271 1428 891 2590 3475 1710 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 636 1295 643 2574 2940 1588 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 147 147 164 204 Lingcod 42 170 132 344 356 331 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 134 284 _ 418 500 544 584 Widow Rockfish 470 1968 486 2924 3962 3329 3888 SBTS+URCK V&C 1051 2659 _ 3710 4588 4733 5047 Yellowtail V&C 565 1532 _ 2097 2407 1988 2127 Canary rockfish V&C 124 352 _ 476 689 798 804 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 257 82 _ 339 632 656 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 349 974 1323 1396 3604 3843 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 748 748 3651 1315 1431 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 145 150 729 1334 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 354 1867 2221 6253 6715 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 60 63 150 129 148 Pacific Whiting 8981 73135 476 82592 83800 87855 87856 *Estimates Thru 30OCT 30OCT 30OCT 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.