Groundfish Management: Inseason Adjustments - Pacific Fishery Management Council

In 1982 there were 29,625,515 pounds taken. 

-Allen

Is that in addition to the millions of kgs that the Chinese and Russian trawlers took?

We don't fish most groundfish species nearly as hard as we used to. Browsing stock assessments for various groundfish generally shows the same trend: catches in the 1970-1990 period dwarf catches from any other time in the last century. The sheer magnitude of harvest in those years is difficult to comprehend when compared to today's harvest rates.

I searched for lingcod southern stock assessment and bocaccio stock assessment, for reference. The 1970s and 80s were a really bad time to be a lingcod or bocaccio!