PacFIN 25-AUG-00 10:39      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 JUL THRU DEC
           Dover sole    508   3099   1844   5451    8955     5360     9036
       Longspine THDS     15    483    508   1006    3730     1047     1787
      Shortspine THDS     24    200    183    407     664      471      788
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    111    755    430   1296    3355     1567     2780

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     38     13     29     80    2430      122     2330

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     46     46              114      166

              Lingcod      8     20     13     41     132      152      253

       Widow Rockfish     91   1217    290   1598    3237     2193     3857
      Canary rockfish      3     15      6     24      88      395      564

          POP (V&C&E)     24     44      3     71     227      223      371
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    307    780     10   1097    2153     1098     1751
 Near-shore RF, North      _     12      5     17     172                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     13     14     37     64    1133                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     57    183     66    306    1490                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      5      _      1      6              287      364

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      8      8      31       23       35
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    120    120     915      475      755
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     19     19     517       89      113
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      5      5      68                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     30     30     337                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     35     35     335                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      4      4               57       71

      Pacific Whiting   6457  25343   5092  36892            44779    83360

      *Estimates Thru  31JUL         31JUL

       HARD DATA THRU   6/00   7/00   5/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 25-AUG-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.