PacFIN 18-DEC-00 16:16      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 NOV THRU DEC
           Dover sole    680   4329   2855   7864    8955     8384     9038
       Longspine THDS     15    680    718   1413    3730     1680     1787
      Shortspine THDS     37    282    274    593     664      745      788
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    192   1351    762   2305    3355     2638     2782

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    302   1182    612   2096    2430     2315     2329

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     74     74              159      166

              Lingcod     14     38     30     82     132      249      253

       Widow Rockfish    331   2465    646   3442    3237     3466     3858
      Canary rockfish      5     24     11     40      88      564      564

          POP (V&C&E)     35     92      5    132     227      362      371
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    688   1848     21   2557    2153     1743     1744
 Near-shore RF, North      _     21      8     29     172                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     21     31     52    104    1133                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     86    321    115    522    1490                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      9      _      1     10              363      364

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     16     16      31       35       36
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    252    252     915      746      759
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     49     49     517      113      113
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     14     14      68                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     35     35     337                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    124    124     335                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      4      4               70       72

      Pacific Whiting  10938  68697   4984  84619            83359    83360

      *Estimates Thru  30NOV         30NOV

       HARD DATA THRU   8/00  11/00   8/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-DEC-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.