PacFIN 31-JUL-00 14:52      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 JUN THRU DEC
           Dover sole    442   2800   1580   4822    8955     4773     9032
       Longspine THDS     14    451    464    929    3730      901     1782
      Shortspine THDS     19    184    172    375     664      417      788
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     72    612    319   1003    3355     1288     2780

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     23      6     24     53    2430       89     2313

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     44     44               99      166

              Lingcod      5     12      8     25     132      123      253

       Widow Rockfish     72    944    212   1228    3237     2043     3857
      Canary rockfish      _     10      2     12      88      313      564

          POP (V&C&E)     13     31      1     45     227      130      371
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    151    490      2    643    2153      826     1751
  North Near-shore RF      _      8      4     12     172                  
 North Shelf rockfish     12     10     33     55    1133                  
 North Slope rockfish     42    155     63    260    1490                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _              209      364

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      8      8      31       19       35
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    116    116     915      351      755
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     28     28     517       83      111
  South Near-shore RF      _      _     22     22      68                  
 South Shelf rockfish      _      _     32     32     337                  
 South Slope rockfish      _      _     41     41     335                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      2      2               45       71

      Pacific Whiting   2154   6016   3976  12146            16296    83360

      *Estimates Thru  30JUN         30JUN

       HARD DATA THRU  12/99   6/00   3/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 28-JUL-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.