PacFIN 19-NOV-99 09:35 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 696 3835 3136 7667 8955 6605 7986 Longspine THDS 27 646 837 1510 3733 2005 2274 Shortspine THDS 54 290 357 701 805 1076 1219 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 271 1466 903 2640 3475 1710 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 655 1296 425 2376 2940 1588 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 155 155 164 204 Lingcod 41 171 121 333 356 331 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 135 286 _ 421 500 544 584 Widow Rockfish 466 2133 483 3082 3962 3329 3888 SBTS+URCK V&C 1060 2656 _ 3716 4588 4733 5047 Yellowtail V&C 560 1528 _ 2088 2407 1988 2127 Canary rockfish V&C 121 350 _ 471 689 798 804 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 252 84 _ 336 632 656 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 375 1001 1376 1396 3604 3843 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 754 754 3651 1315 1431 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 141 146 729 1334 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 380 1896 2276 6253 6715 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 4 62 66 150 129 148 Pacific Whiting 9100 73169 496 82765 83800 87855 87856 *Estimates Thru 31OCT 31OCT 31OCT HARD DATA THRU 9/99 10/99 8/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-NOV-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.