PacFIN 17-DEC-99 15:21 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 DEC THRU DEC Dover sole 745 4157 3352 8254 8955 7986 7986 Longspine THDS 29 685 898 1612 3733 2274 2274 Shortspine THDS 56 312 377 745 805 1219 1219 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 280 1576 978 2834 3475 2050 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 656 1298 465 2419 2940 1633 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 162 162 204 204 Lingcod 42 172 124 338 356 349 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 140 274 _ 414 500 584 584 Widow Rockfish 508 2474 506 3488 3962 3888 3888 SBTS+URCK V&C 1061 2661 _ 3722 4588 5047 5047 Yellowtail V&C 560 1523 _ 2083 2407 2127 2127 Canary rockfish V&C 121 350 _ 471 689 804 804 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 253 84 _ 337 656 656 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 378 1048 1426 1396 3843 3843 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 779 779 3651 1431 1431 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 145 150 729 1441 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 383 1972 2355 6715 6715 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 4 61 65 150 148 148 Pacific Whiting 9100 73011 496 82607 83800 87856 87856 *Estimates Thru 11DEC 11DEC 04DEC HARD DATA THRU 9/99 11/99 9/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 16-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.