PacFIN 24-JUL-00 11:32      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 JUL THRU DEC
           Dover sole    459   2874   1705   5038    8955     5400     9111
       Longspine THDS     14    459    484    957    3730     1045     1786
      Shortspine THDS     22    188    191    401     667      486      808
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     86    639    373   1098    3355     1782     3084

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     36     17     58    111    3030      203     2610

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     53     53     425      121      181

              Lingcod     11     35     22     68     163      220      368

       Widow Rockfish     83   1076    249   1408    3365     2217     3907
      Canary rockfish      _     13      5     18     103      450      644

          POP (V&C&E)     15     33      2     50     227      286      453
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    240    558      7    805    2439     1484     2231
  North Near-shore RF      1     40     14     55     365                  
 North Shelf rockfish     17     12     37     66    1183                  
 North Slope rockfish     46    180     79    305    1500                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _              412      549

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     10     10      55       39       58
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    145    145    1781      544      871
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     29     29     517       87      112
  South Near-shore RF      _      _     48     48     301                  
 South Shelf rockfish      _      _     37     37     595                  
 South Slope rockfish      _      _     42     42     432                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3               85      114

      Pacific Whiting   4155  12849   4017  21021   83800    44779    83419

      *Estimates Thru  15JUL  15JUL  15JUL

       HARD DATA THRU  12/99   6/00   3/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 13-JUL-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.