PacFIN 04-AUG-00 14:39      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    504   3040   1838   5382    8955     5415     9136
       Longspine THDS     15    477    502    994    3730     1048     1791
      Shortspine THDS     24    198    198    420     667      483      807
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     98    719    432   1249    3355     1590     2821

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     42     46     71    159    3030      203     2627

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     53     53     425      121      181

              Lingcod     13     44     25     82     163      219      357

       Widow Rockfish     89   1203    280   1572    3365     2213     3904
      Canary rockfish      _     13      6     19     103      449      642

          POP (V&C&E)     18     39      3     60     227      223      378
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    274    543     11    828    2439     1166     1860
 Near-shore RF, North      1     43     21     65     365                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     21     15     39     75    1183                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     52    183     97    332    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       89      114
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     52     52     301                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     38     38     595                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     44     44     432                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3               85      115

      Pacific Whiting   5675  22609   4190  32474   83800    44779    83361

      *Estimates Thru  29JUL  29JUL  29JUL

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

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 03-AUG-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.