PacFIN 27-DEC-00 16:08      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 DEC THRU DEC
           Dover sole    739   4503   3004   8246    8955     9137     9137
       Longspine THDS     17    699    784   1500    3730     1791     1791
      Shortspine THDS     44    291    311    646     667      808      808
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    205   1420    808   2433    3355     2821     2821

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    563   1294    947   2804    3030     2627     2627

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     98     98     425      181      181

              Lingcod     27     64     51    142     163      357      357

       Widow Rockfish    355   2576    657   3588    3365     3904     3904
      Canary rockfish      6     32     11     49     103      642      642

          POP (V&C&E)     34     94      5    133     227      378      378
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    788   1887     22   2697    2439     1853     1853
 Near-shore RF, North      1    124     39    164     365                  
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     23     37     54    114    1183                  
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     97    337    117    551    1500                  
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH     32      _      1     33              436      436

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      55       58       58
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    318    318    1781      869      869
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     50     50     517      114      114
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    101    101     301                  
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     52     52     595                  
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    132    132     432                  
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      9      9              115      115

      Pacific Whiting  12470  68697   4984  86151   83800    83361    83361

      *Estimates Thru  16DEC  16DEC  16DEC

       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.