PacFIN 05-JUL-00 08:51      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Total Fleet Best Estimates* of 2000 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial
  Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons

                                                     2000    1999 TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     OY  THRU JUN THRU DEC
           Dover sole    430   2753   1499   4682    8955     4799     9111
       Longspine THDS     13    452    464    929    3730      903     1786
      Shortspine THDS     21    180    177    378     667      425      808
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     62    594    285    941    3355     1491     3084

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     25     18     50     93    3030      131     2610

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     42     42     425      105      181

              Lingcod      8     25     13     46     163      169      368

       Widow Rockfish     71    899    215   1185    3365     2061     3907
      Canary rockfish      _      9      2     11     103      354      644

          POP (V&C&E)     10     33      1     44     227      226      453
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    151    344      1    496    2439     1143     2231
  North Near-shore RF      _     30     11     41     365                  
 North Shelf rockfish     11     11     33     55    1183                  
 North Slope rockfish     39    146     59    244    1500                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _              312      549

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      7      7      55       32       58
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    140    140    1781      405      871
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     28     28     517       83      112
  South Near-shore RF      _      _     14     14     301                  
 South Shelf rockfish      _      _     33     33     595                  
 South Slope rockfish      _      _     29     29     432                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      2      2               70      114

      Pacific Whiting   1489   1248   3560   6297   83800    16296    83419

      *Estimates Thru  24JUN  24JUN  24JUN

       HARD DATA THRU  12/99   5/00   2/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 23-JUN-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.