PacFIN 20-DEC-99 16:37 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 726 4142 3352 8220 8955 7245 7986 Longspine THDS 29 683 898 1610 3733 2157 2274 Shortspine THDS 55 310 377 742 805 1148 1219 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 273 1565 978 2816 3475 1884 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 659 1298 465 2422 2940 1616 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 162 162 185 204 Lingcod 42 172 124 338 356 343 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 144 273 _ 417 500 566 584 Widow Rockfish 489 2461 506 3456 3962 3699 3888 SBTS+URCK V&C 1055 2660 _ 3715 4588 4916 5047 Yellowtail V&C 559 1523 _ 2082 2407 2072 2127 Canary rockfish V&C 121 350 _ 471 689 802 804 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 252 84 _ 336 646 656 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 378 1048 1426 1396 3751 3843 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 779 779 3651 1375 1431 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 145 150 729 1412 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 383 1972 2355 6538 6715 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 4 61 65 150 141 148 Pacific Whiting 9099 73011 496 82606 83800 87856 87856 *Estimates Thru 30NOV 30NOV 30NOV HARD DATA THRU 10/99 11/99 9/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 20-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.