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(1) The reader is cautioned that the harvest estimates contained herein may not agree with sablefish harvest estimates from other data sources. Since 1990, fish tickets do not contain all of the sablefish catch. Some EEZ catch may only be recorded on WPRs. To construct the sablefish catch files contained herein, the authors used fish ticket records for catcher vessels and WPR records for catcher processors. In doing so, the authors excluded fish ticket records from catcher processors. The reader should be aware that available fish ticket data and available WPR data for a catcher processor can vary dramatically by amount of harvest and management area. Thus the method of blending data used herein may result in different harvest estimates than other methods of blending fish ticket and WPR data.

(2) The reader should be aware that the IFQ totals by vessel class are estimates based upon the 1995 QS issued by vessel class and the 1995 IFQ per unit of QS in each area. Some QS issued in 1995 did not receive 1995 IFQ. There was no way to identify precisely the actual IFQ issued during 1995 on the data files provided to the authors. Thus the total IFQ estimates by vessel category may overestimate the IFQ associated with the QS that was issued during 1995. However, significant portions of the 1995 IFQ that was set aside for QS in the "reserve pool" was never issued during 1995, because the issues concerning who should receive the QS were not resolved during 1995. Thus, the IFQ totals for an area in Table 7.1-2 are lower than the TACs available to the IFQ fishery in Table 7.1-1 due to the 1995 IFQ that was never issued.

(3) See 50 CFR 679.40(e).

(4) Note that some of these persons may have changed some of their other QS holdings in the area or in other areas during 1995. However, each of these persons had at least one QS holding by species, area, and category that was left unchanged in terms of units of QS during 1995. The holder did not purchase any additional QS for the species, area, and category and the holder did not permanently transfer any portion of the QS holding.