PacFIN 19-JUL-99 10:33      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

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

                                                     1999    1998 TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     OY  THRU JUN THRU DEC
           Dover sole      1     35      1     37               30       50
       Longspine THDS      _      2      _      2                2        4
      Shortspine THDS      1      _      3      4       3        4        8
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)      _     11      1     12                8       24

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)      4      3     35     42     423       27      143

 Sablefish Conception      _      _      5      5                1        3

              Lingcod      6     20     12     38      80       82      102

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C      _      _      _      _                7       10

       Widow Rockfish      _      7     10     17     184      130      252

 Sebastes Complex V&C     11     69      _     80     555      234      382
       Yellowtail V&C      8     15      _     23     327      115      222
  Canary rockfish V&C      2     31      _     33      71       75       86
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH     10     10      _     20               64      114

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _     60    169    229     455      656     1320
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _     50     50    1190      163      262
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      _      2      2                1       19
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _     60    221    281              820     1601
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     12     12      49       27       60

      Pacific Whiting      _      _      _      _              382     3038

      *Estimates Thru  30JUN  30JUN  30JUN

       HARD DATA THRU   5/99   6/99   3/99

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