PacFIN 27-DEC-99 09:50 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 734 4198 3352 8284 8955 7986 7986 Longspine THDS 29 687 898 1614 3733 2274 2274 Shortspine THDS 55 314 378 747 805 1219 1219 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 275 1588 978 2841 3475 2050 2050 NTW Sable (V&C&E&M) 659 1298 465 2422 2940 1633 1633 Sablefish Conception _ _ 162 162 204 204 Lingcod 42 173 124 339 356 349 349 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C 144 275 _ 419 500 584 584 Widow Rockfish 491 2511 506 3508 3962 3888 3888 SBTS+URCK V&C 1056 2662 _ 3718 4588 5047 5047 Yellowtail V&C 559 1523 _ 2082 2407 2127 2127 Canary rockfish V&C 121 350 _ 471 689 804 804 V&C UNSP RCKFSH 252 84 _ 336 656 656 Sebastes So. (E&M&C) _ 378 1049 1427 1396 3909 3909 Chilipepper (E&M&C) _ _ 779 779 3651 1429 1429 Splitnose RF (E&M&C) _ 5 146 151 729 1441 1441 SBTS+URCK (E&M&C) _ 383 1974 2357 6779 6779 Bocaccio (E&M&C) _ 4 61 65 150 149 149 Pacific Whiting 9099 73011 496 82606 83800 87856 87856 *Estimates Thru 18DEC 18DEC 04DEC HARD DATA THRU 10/99 11/99 9/99 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 24-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.