PacFIN 28-JUL-00 13:58      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    483   2955   1795   5233    8955     5415     9132
       Longspine THDS     15    471    493    979    3730     1045     1786
      Shortspine THDS     23    194    196    413     667      486      807
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     89    682    415   1186    3355     1592     2821

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     39     22     65    126    3030      202     2610

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     53     53     425      121      181

              Lingcod     12     40     24     76     163      220      367

       Widow Rockfish     84   1157    279   1520    3365     2213     3904
      Canary rockfish      _     13      6     19     103      449      642

          POP (V&C&E)     15     37      2     54     227      223      378
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    257    543      8    808    2439     1166     1860
  North Near-shore RF      1     42     15     58     365                  
 North Shelf rockfish     19     13     38     70    1183                  
 North Slope rockfish     49    176     88    313    1500                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _              340      436

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     10     10      55       39       58
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    146    146    1781      544      871
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     29     29     517       87      112
  South Near-shore RF      _      _     50     50     301                  
 South Shelf rockfish      _      _     38     38     595                  
 South Slope rockfish      _      _     44     44     432                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3               85      114

      Pacific Whiting   5100  19592   4076  28768   83800    44779    83361

      *Estimates Thru  22JUL  22JUL  22JUL

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

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 28-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.