PacFIN 06-DEC-99 16:56 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 737 4080 3289 8106 8955 7245 7986 Longspine THDS 28 677 889 1594 3733 2157 2274 Shortspine THDS 56 307 377 740 805 1148 1219 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 278 1547 954 2779 3475 1884 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 656 1297 451 2404 2940 1616 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 155 155 185 204 Lingcod 42 173 126 341 356 343 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 140 290 _ 430 500 566 584 Widow Rockfish 506 2376 513 3395 3962 3699 3888 SBTS+URCK V&C 1061 2666 _ 3727 4588 4916 5047 Yellowtail V&C 560 1528 _ 2088 2407 2072 2127 Canary rockfish V&C 121 350 _ 471 689 802 804 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 253 84 _ 337 646 656 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 375 1017 1392 1396 3751 3843 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 791 791 3651 1375 1431 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 152 157 729 1412 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 380 1960 2340 6538 6715 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 4 63 67 150 141 148 Pacific Whiting 9100 73169 496 82765 83800 87856 87856 *Estimates Thru 27NOV 27NOV 27NOV HARD DATA THRU 9/99 10/99 8/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 02-DEC-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.