PacFIN 17-OCT-00 10:55      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 SEP THRU DEC
           Dover sole    611   3604   2257   6472    8955     6737     9136
       Longspine THDS     15    549    580   1144    3730     1376     1791
      Shortspine THDS     38    227    227    492     667      642      808
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    159   1030    553   1742    3355     2181     2821

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    577   1237    241   2055    3030     2460     2627

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     60     60     425      147      181

              Lingcod     25     60     36    121     163      327      357

       Widow Rockfish    190   1749    415   2354    3365     2550     3904
      Canary rockfish      5     29     10     44     103      630      642

          POP (V&C&E)     28     69      4    101     227      323      378
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    598   1360     18   1976    2439     1846     1860
 Near-shore RF, North      1    107     36    144     365                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     22     29     48     99    1183                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     89    260    103    452    1500                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH     21      _      1     22              429      436

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     14     14      55       50       58
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    190    190    1781      749      871
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     28     28     517       93      114
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     61     61     301                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     43     43     595                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     74     74     432                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      8      8              104      115

      Pacific Whiting  11790  68691   5017  85498   83800    83357    83361

      *Estimates Thru  30SEP  30SEP  30SEP

       HARD DATA THRU   7/00   9/00   6/00

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