Summary of observer sampling of domestic groundfish fisheries in the northeast Pacific Ocean and eastern Bering Sea, 1990

Abstract

This report summarizes the 1990 domestic groundfish observer program and domestic groundfish activities in the eastern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands region, the Gulf of Alaska region, and off the Washington-Oregon-California coast. Data contained herein provide estimates of the domestic groundfish catches and bycatch of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis), snow (Tanner) crabs (Chionoecetes spp.), king crabs (Paralithodes spp. and Lithodes spp.), and Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi). Estimates of rockfish and flatfish catches are tabulated by species groups and also by species.