PacFIN 16-JUN-99 11:24      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Limited Entry Best Estimates* of 1999 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial
  Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons

                                                     1999    1998 TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     OY  THRU MAY THRU DEC
           Dover sole    409   2017   1736   4162    8955     2859     7931
       Longspine THDS     14    289    467    770    3733      789     2261
      Shortspine THDS     20    130    179    329     803      427     1189
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     92    615    511   1218    3475      640     2024

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     14     33     21     68    2516       37     1487

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    138    138               54      198

              Lingcod      8     41     29     78     275       93      246

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     49    105      _    154     500      212      575

       Widow Rockfish    293   1240    297   1830    3777     1004     3565

 Sebastes Complex V&C    259    848      _   1107    4033     1399     4315
       Yellowtail V&C    182    448      _    630    2080      541     1982
  Canary rockfish V&C     22     91      _    113     618      236      691
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH     62     11      _     73               74      296

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _     79    371    450     941     1318     2765
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    335    335    2461      565     1006
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      1     99    100     729      720     1225
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _     80    805    885             2603     4996
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      1     24     25     101       26       75

      Pacific Whiting      _      9     96    105             3109    84824

      *Estimates Thru  31MAY  31MAY  31MAY

       HARD DATA THRU   4/99   5/99   2/99

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 16-JUN-99.

  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 2517 metric tons and the open-access
  sablefish harvest guideline is 423 metric tons. Starting in 1995 this
  non-trawl sablefish catch statistic no longer includes treaty Indian catch.
  
  V&C = Van&Col = U.S. Vancouver & Columbia INPFC areas combined
  V&C&E&M = U.S. Vancouver & Columbia & Eureka & Monterey INPFC areas combined
  E&M&C = Eureka & Monterey & Conception INPFC areas combined

  Sebastes Complex includes all sebastes spp. except widow rockfish, POP,
  shortbelly rockfish. Thornyheads are also excluded.
  
  SBTS+URCK = Sebastes Complex plus Unspecified Rockfish. Due to the large
  amount of rockfish catch classified as unspecified rockfish (primarily in the
  Monterey and Conception areas) SBTS+URCK is the best estimate of catch for
  Sebastes Complex for the E&M&C area.

  Sebastes So. includes all sebastes spp. except widow rockfish, POP, shortbelly
  rockfish, chilipepper, and splitnose rockfish. Thornyheads are also excluded.