PacFIN 18-DEC-00 16:15      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 NOV THRU DEC
           Dover sole    687   4346   2871   7904    8955     8481     9137
       Longspine THDS     15    680    731   1426    3730     1683     1791
      Shortspine THDS     43    282    294    619     667      764      808
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    197   1376    768   2341    3355     2676     2821

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    556   1288    856   2700    3030     2597     2627

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     91     91     425      170      181

              Lingcod     27     64     51    142     163      353      357

       Widow Rockfish    332   2473    657   3462    3365     3509     3904
      Canary rockfish      6     32     11     49     103      641      642

          POP (V&C&E)     33     92      5    130     227      370      378
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    741   1887     22   2650    2439     1852     1853
 Near-shore RF, North      1    123     39    163     365                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     23     36     54    113    1183                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     92    327    116    535    1500                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH     32      _      1     33              435      436

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     20     20      55       57       58
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    293    293    1781      845      869
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     49     49     517      113      114
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    100    100     301                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     50     50     595                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    129    129     432                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      9      9              109      115

      Pacific Whiting  12470  68697   4984  86151   83800    83359    83361

      *Estimates Thru  30NOV  30NOV  30NOV

       HARD DATA THRU   8/00  11/00   8/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-DEC-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.