PacFIN 16-NOV-00 15:51      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 OCT THRU DEC
           Dover sole    656   3955   2345   6956    8955     7772     9038
       Longspine THDS     15    599    593   1207    3730     1565     1787
      Shortspine THDS     35    247    220    502     664      700      788
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    186   1199    609   1994    3355     2483     2782

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    299   1163    203   1665    2430     2300     2329

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     54     54              148      166

              Lingcod     14     38     25     77     132      243      253

       Widow Rockfish    247   2068    552   2867    3237     3096     3858
      Canary rockfish      5     23      9     37      88      562      564

          POP (V&C&E)     34     88      5    127     227      357      371
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    627   1570     21   2218    2153     1743     1744
 Near-shore RF, North      _     19      8     27     172                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     20     28     49     97    1133                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     84    293    101    478    1490                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      9      _      1     10              362      364

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     12     12      31       33       36
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    181    181     915      708      759
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     32     32     517      105      113
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     11     11      68                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     32     32     337                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     82     82     335                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      4      4               69       72

      Pacific Whiting  10938  68695   4984  84617            83358    83360

      *Estimates Thru  31OCT         31OCT

       HARD DATA THRU   8/00  10/00   7/00

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