PacFIN 28-NOV-00 08:38      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    684   4158   2563   7405    8955     8481     9137
       Longspine THDS     15    630    665   1310    3730     1683     1791
      Shortspine THDS     42    263    264    569     667      764      808
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    196   1288    688   2172    3355     2676     2821

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    554   1275    373   2202    3030     2597     2627

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     66     66     425      170      181

              Lingcod     27     64     46    137     163      353      357

       Widow Rockfish    319   2270    631   3220    3365     3509     3904
      Canary rockfish      6     31     11     48     103      641      642

          POP (V&C&E)     33     89      5    127     227      370      378
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    722   1609     22   2353    2439     1852     1853
 Near-shore RF, North      1    118     37    156     365                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     22     35     53    110    1183                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     92    312    105    509    1500                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH     32      _      1     33              435      436

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     17     17      55       57       58
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    238    238    1781      845      869
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     38     38     517      113      114
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     80     80     301                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     45     45     595                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     99     99     432                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      9      9              109      115

      Pacific Whiting  12470  68695   4984  86149   83800    83359    83361

      *Estimates Thru  18NOV  18NOV  18NOV

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

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 27-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.