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TABLE 3

	Lengths Taken			Otoliths Taken
Species	Female	Male	Unknown	Female	Male	Unknown
Dover sole	8361	11803	365	690	671	9
Sablefish	653	956	617	343	469	3
Longspine thornyhead	0	0	32353	0	0	511
Shortspine thornyhead	0	0	9754	0	0	687
Bocaccio	13	82	0	12	76	0
Lingcod	9	5	7	10	4	3
Petrale sole	39	65	0	30	31	0
Shortbelly rockfish	9	1	0	46	14	0
Pacific halibut	0	0	11	0	0	0

Table 3. Summary of length frequencies and age structures during the 1998 slope survey

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TABLE 4

	CPUE (catch/haul)
	Vancouver Area		Columbia Area
Species	183-549 m (100-300 fms)	549+ -1300 m (300+ -711 fms)	183-549 m (100-300 fms)	549+ -1300 m (300+ -711 fms)
Dover sole	61.20	17.25	48.39	27.79
Sablefish	6.00	16.67	10.11	20.00
Longspine thornyhead	63.09	65.97	4.71	38.70
shortspine thornyhead	16.97	11.83	11.63	7.91
grenadier unid	3.86	24.11	4.89	25.99
rockfish unid	73.90	0.00	18.25	1.20
hake	3.70	2.81	26.91	1.25
skate unid	10.05	4.71	14.12	5.33
grooved Tanner crab	22.23	19.02	4.46	20.10
rex sole	5.61	0.00	11.24	2.17
spiny dogfish	17.73	0.00	45.74	0.00
deep sea sole	5.33	7.63	3.12	3.78
shark unid	1.30	0.66	5.34	1.51
slickhead unid	0.60	1.43	0.89	2.06
squid unid	0.00	1.24	0.94	0.92
arrowtooth Flounder	31.21	0.00	5.51	2.88
Number of Hauls	8	8	60	47

Table 4. Mean CPUE (kgs/haul) for the 15 most prevalent groundfish categories by depth stratum in fathoms and International North Pacific Fisheries Commission (INPFC) area. Note: No adjustments were made to catch for various distances fished.

	CPUE (catch/haul)
	Eureka Area		Monterey Area
Species	183-549 m (100-300 fms)	549+ -1300 m (300+ -711 fms)	183-549 m (100-300 fms)	549+ -1300 m (300+ -711 fms)
Dover sole	71.54	19.38	44.30	53.85
sablefish	11.99	16.01	7.34	16.33
longspine thornyhead	2.71	59.98	7.12	52.79
shortspine thornyhead	7.48	13.13	7.63	16.51
grenadier unid	2.10	35.63	0.87	44.05
rockfish unid	33.39	2.22	58.96	2.83
hake	45.37	1.67	26.25	1.75
skate unid	21.32	7.55	16.48	6.73
grooved Tanner crab	1.90	17.61	0.69	15.60
rex sole	23.20	10.34	15.28	3.06
spiny dogfish	15.97	0.00	23.86	0.00
deep sea sole	0.00	7.27	1.32	8.15
shark unid	1.51	1.65	6.76	4.21
slickhead unid	0.00	3.41	1.10	7.65
squid unid	4.23	3.09	15.28	3.06
arrowtooth Flounder	5.00	1.50	0.58	0.00
Number of Hauls	30	32	48	57

	CPUE (catch/haul)
	Conception Area		Total Over All Areas
Species	183-549 m (100-300 fms)	549+ -1300 m (300+ -711 fms)	183-549 m (100-300 fms)	549+ -1300 m (300+ -711 fms)
Dover sole	8.15	40.79	49.90	38.09
sablefish	6.94	27.18	9.42	18.51
longspine thornyhead	7.65	39.54	9.07	49.17
shortspine thornyhead	3.04	17.78	9.79	13.53
grenadier unid	0.10	18.96	3.00	33.87
rockfish unid	81.98	0.55	40.96	1.64
hake	10.00	1.08	28.25	1.54
skate unid	11.37	4.85	15.81	6.12
grooved Tanner crab	0.00	1.74	3.99	16.37
rex sole	2.58	0.30	14.09	4.88
spiny dogfish	9.20	1.30	28.48	1.30
deep sea sole	0.00	3.15	3.42	6.23
shark unid	15.81	6.90	5.58	3.37
slickhead unid	0.00	8.18	0.86	5.32
squid unid	0.10	0.23	8.06	2.09
arrowtooth Flounder	0.00	0.00	7.13	2.65
Number of Hauls	10	19	156	163

Table 4 (continued). Mean CPUE (kgs/haul) for the 15 most prevalent groundfish categories by depth stratum in fathoms and International North Pacific Fisheries Commission (INPFC) area. Note: No adjustments were made to catch for various distances fished.

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