PacFIN 26-JAN-00 15:48      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 DEC THRU DEC
           Dover sole    784   4414   3462   8660    8955     7946     7946
       Longspine THDS     31    725    939   1695    3733     2338     2338
      Shortspine THDS     52    328    385    765     803     1147     1147
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    281   1624   1016   2921    3475     2030     2030

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    626   1206    377   2209    2516     1492     1492

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    155    155              201      201

              Lingcod     31    124     86    241     275      247      247

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    146    278      _    424     500      583      583

       Widow Rockfish    537   2708    518   3763    3777     3724     3724

      SBTS+URCK (V&C)    970   2451      _   3421    4033     4634     4634
       Yellowtail V&C    520   1459      _   1979    2080     1961     1961
  Canary rockfish V&C    118    294      _    412     618      728      728
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    208     58      _    266              541      541

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _    228    642    870     941     4286     4286
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    672    672    2461      669      669
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      5    143    148     729       41       41
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _    233   1457   1690             4996     4996
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      3     43     46     101       70       70

      Pacific Whiting   9099  73012   1307  83418            87856    87856

      *Estimates Thru  31DEC         31DEC

       HARD DATA THRU  10/99  12/99  10/99

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 26-JAN-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 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, and
  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. In the U.S. Vancouver and Columbia areas
  there is also a certain amount of unspecified rockfish (URCK) reported. It is
  assumed that the vast majority of the fish contained within the URCK category
  are within the sebastes complex. So, SBTS+URCK is also the best estimate of
  catch for sebastes complex for the Van&Col area. 

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