Table 1

Quantiles and Other Summary Statistics for Weekly Halibut/Groundfish Bycatch Rates (KG/MT)

Year		10%	25%	50%	75%	90%	Mean	Wilcoxon Rank-Sum z-Statistic
1992	Sea State	0	0	0.9	6.5	16.8	5.8
	Non–Sea State	0	0	2.1	7.3	16.6	6.1
	All	0	0	1.4	7.2	16.7	5.9	1.04
1993	Sea State	0	0.4	2.4	7.4	16.5	6.0
	Non–Sea State	0	0	2.0	13.5	31.3	10.7
	All	0	0.1	2.2	9.1	21.5	7.9	0.64
1994	Sea State	0	0	1.6	8.1	21.1	8.9
	Non–Sea State	0	0	1.1	9.5	27.7	12.3
	All	0	0	1.5	8.2	25.1	10.4	−0.06
1995	Sea State	0	0	1.9	11.3	30.2	12.0
	Non–Sea State	0	0	1.2	17.1	31.6	10.9
	All	0	0	1.4	11.8	30.3	11.7	−1.02
1996	Sea State	0	0.7	5.6	13.8	31.0	11.8
	Non–Sea State	0	0	2.9	13.2	27.4	9.3
	All	0	0.2	4.5	13.3	30.0	10.9	−1.76^*
1997	Sea State	0	1.0	3.8	10.7	28.9	9.9
	Non–Sea State	0	0.7	3.8	11.6	26.1	9.7
	All	0	0.9	3.8	10.8	27.4	9.8	−0.54
1998	Sea State	2.0	5.7	12.6	21.0	34.3	19.7
	Non–Sea State	0	0.2	3.9	10.7	22.7	7.9
	All	0	2.5	8.8	17.5	30.4	14.7	−7.2^**
1999	Sea State	2.0	6.5	15.2	32.4	62.8	26.6
	Non–Sea State	0.1	0.5	6.2	26.0	41.3	15.8
	All	0.4	4.2	14.0	31.4	55.9	23.5	−3.14^**
2000	Sea State	1.1	6.2	16.4	33.0	57.4	24.1
	Non–Sea State	0	0.9	6.1	10.7	18.4	7.5
	All	0	3.0	10.4	24.5	40.9	17.9	−7.31^**