PacFIN 14-JUN-00 17:06      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Limited Entry Best Estimates* of 2000 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial
  Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons

                                                     2000    1999 TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     OY  THRU MAY THRU DEC
           Dover sole    378   2632   1414   4424    8955     4064     9002
       Longspine THDS     13    434    454    901    3730      732     1782
      Shortspine THDS     17    174    169    360     664      333      785
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     52    535    253    840    3355     1094     3029

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     17      4     24     45    2430       72     2315

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     34     34               85      166

              Lingcod      2      6      4     12     132       76      251

       Widow Rockfish     67    843    192   1102    3237     1851     3850
      Canary rockfish      _      7      1      8      88      162      563

          POP (V&C&E)      6     26      1     33     227      165      440
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     91    331      _    422    2153      687     2109
  North Near-shore RF      _      7      2      9     172                  
 North Shelf rockfish      7      7     28     42    1133                  
 North Slope rockfish     31    125     50    206    1490                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _              164      473

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      4      4      31       16       35
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    103    103     915      315      755
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     27     27     517       74      111
  South Near-shore RF      _      _      9      9      68                  
 South Shelf rockfish      _      _     17     17     337                  
 South Slope rockfish      _      _     34     34     335                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      2      2               38       71

      Pacific Whiting      _     27   2549   2576               91    83418

      *Estimates Thru  31MAY         31MAY

       HARD DATA THRU  12/99   5/00   2/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 14-JUN-2000.

  OY = Optimum Yield     
  The OYs are commercial (LE and OA) guidelines only, the anticipated
  recreational catches are not included here.  
  
  The OY for Pacific Whiting is the total U.S. coastwide shoreside allocation.
  
  The nontrawl (NTW) sablefish catch displayed on this report includes catches
  for both the limited entry and open access fisheries. The nontrawl limited-
  entry sablefish harvest guideline is 2430 metric tons and the open-access
  sablefish harvest guideline is 600 metric tons. Starting in 1995 this
  non-trawl sablefish catch statistic no longer includes treaty Indian catch.
  
  V&C&E   = U.S. Vancouver & Columbia & Eureka INPFC areas combined
  V&C&E&M = U.S. Vancouver & Columbia & Eureka & Monterey INPFC areas combined
  MT&CP   = Monterey and Conception INPFC areas combined.