PacFIN 07-NOV-00 14:15      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 OCT THRU DEC
           Dover sole    662   3860   2374   6896    8955     7866     9136
       Longspine THDS     15    588    599   1202    3730     1568     1791
      Shortspine THDS     40    242    235    517     667      717      808
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    184   1172    609   1965    3355     2519     2821

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    588   1246    309   2143    3030     2556     2627

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     60     60     425      158      181

              Lingcod     28     63     42    133     163      346      357

       Widow Rockfish    238   1985    588   2811    3365     3136     3904
      Canary rockfish      5     29     11     45     103      639      642

          POP (V&C&E)     31     78      4    113     227      363      378
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    656   1363     23   2042    2439     1857     1860
 Near-shore RF, North      1    108     39    148     365                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     24     33     50    107    1183                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     95    289    113    497    1500                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH     21      _      1     22              435      436

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     15     15      55       54       58
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    205    205    1781      805      871
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     31     31     517      105      114
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     67     67     301                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     44     44     595                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     83     83     432                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      8      8              107      115

      Pacific Whiting  11790  68695   5017  85502   83800    83359    83361

      *Estimates Thru  28OCT  28OCT  28OCT

       HARD DATA THRU   7/0   9/0   6/0

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 07-NOV-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.