PacFIN 17-OCT-00 10:52      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 SEP THRU DEC
           Dover sole    604   3590   2242   6436    8955     6649     9036
       Longspine THDS     15    549    570   1134    3730     1374     1787
      Shortspine THDS     34    227    212    473     664      627      788
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    156   1008    546   1710    3355     2145     2780

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    565   1128    169   1862    2430     2254     2330

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     50     50              138      166

              Lingcod     12     34     20     66     132      224      253

       Widow Rockfish    188   1746    411   2345    3237     2518     3857
      Canary rockfish      4     21      8     33      88      555      564

          POP (V&C&E)     30     69      4    103     227      323      371
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    552   1321     18   1891    2153     1740     1751
 Near-shore RF, North      _     17      7     24     172                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     21     25     45     91    1133                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     83    253    101    437    1490                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      6      _      1      7              359      364

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     10     10      31       31       35
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    154    154     915      657      755
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     27     27     517       93      113
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      9      9      68                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     31     31     337                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     70     70     335                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      4      4               67       71

      Pacific Whiting  10294  68691   5017  84002            83356    83360

      *Estimates Thru  30SEP         30SEP

       HARD DATA THRU   7/00   9/00   6/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 13-OCT-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.