PacFIN 17-NOV-00 13:55      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 NOV THRU DEC
           Dover sole    674   4058   2459   7191    8955     8481     9137
       Longspine THDS     15    617    628   1260    3730     1683     1791
      Shortspine THDS     42    256    250    548     667      764      808
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    194   1260    653   2107    3355     2676     2821

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    552   1268    340   2160    3030     2597     2627

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     65     65     425      170      181

              Lingcod     27     64     46    137     163      353      357

       Widow Rockfish    282   2172    592   3046    3365     3509     3904
      Canary rockfish      6     31     11     48     103      641      642

          POP (V&C&E)     32     88      5    125     227      370      378
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    686   1609     22   2317    2439     1852     1853
 Near-shore RF, North      1    118     37    156     365                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     22     34     52    108    1183                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     91    304    104    499    1500                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH     32      _      1     33              435      436

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     16     16      55       57       58
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    224    224    1781      845      869
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     34     34     517      113      114
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     79     79     301                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     45     45     595                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     90     90     432                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      9      9              109      115

      Pacific Whiting  12470  68695   4984  86149   83800    83359    83361

      *Estimates Thru  11NOV  11NOV  11NOV

       HARD DATA THRU   8/00  10/00   7/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 14-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.