PacFIN 12-NOV-99 16:30 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 NOV THRU DEC Dover sole 703 3853 3224 7780 8955 7245 7986 Longspine THDS 28 646 874 1548 3733 2157 2274 Shortspine THDS 56 291 378 725 805 1148 1219 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 276 1474 919 2669 3475 1884 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 638 1297 656 2591 2940 1616 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 147 147 185 204 Lingcod 43 171 135 349 356 343 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 137 287 _ 424 500 566 584 Widow Rockfish 486 2189 506 3181 3962 3699 3888 SBTS+URCK V&C 1052 2664 _ 3716 4588 4916 5047 Yellowtail V&C 565 1533 _ 2098 2407 2072 2127 Canary rockfish V&C 124 353 _ 477 689 802 804 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 257 82 _ 339 646 656 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 349 981 1330 1396 3751 3843 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 760 760 3651 1375 1431 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 151 156 729 1412 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 354 1892 2246 6538 6715 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 3 61 64 150 141 148 Pacific Whiting 8981 73136 476 82593 83800 87856 87856 *Estimates Thru 06NOV 06NOV 06NOV HARD DATA THRU 8/99 9/99 7/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 10-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.