PacFIN 18-AUG-00 15:46      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 AUG THRU DEC
           Dover sole    523   3165   1856   5544    8955     6175     9136
       Longspine THDS     15    490    518   1023    3730     1259     1791
      Shortspine THDS     24    203    197    424     667      581      807
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    106    799    438   1343    3355     1954     2821

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     45     38    173    256    3030     2367     2627

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     54     54     425      134      181

              Lingcod     15     47     25     87     163      288      357

       Widow Rockfish     91   1236    295   1622    3365     2419     3904
      Canary rockfish      _     20      7     27     103      554      642

          POP (V&C&E)     19     47      3     69     227      268      378
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    289    818     10   1117    2439     1642     1860
 Near-shore RF, North      1     63     22     86     365                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     22     17     39     78    1183                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     54    195     67    316    1500                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1              403      436

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      9      9      55       44       58
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    146    146    1781      637      871
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     19     19     517       90      114
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     47     47     301                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     21     21     595                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     27     27     432                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      6      6               94      115

      Pacific Whiting   6608  32146   5092  43846   83800    76498    83361

      *Estimates Thru  05AUG  12AUG  12AUG

       HARD DATA THRU  12/99   7/00   5/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-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.