PacFIN 07-APR-98 09:37      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Total Fleet Best Estimates* of 1998 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial
  Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons

                                                     1998    1997 TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     HG  THRU MAR THRU DEC
           Dover sole    149    830    635   1614    8955     3117    10074
       Longspine THDS     11    126    201    338    4123     1388     4000
      Shortspine THDS      8     70     90    168    1195      400     1319
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     24    144    109    277    2282      890     3606

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)      7      5      8     20    1930      205     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _      7      7               59      259

              Lingcod      6     25     16     47     400      221     1560

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     23     63      _     86     650       95      611

       Widow Rockfish     51    204    186    441    4276     1849     6451

         Sebastes V&C    116    422      _    538    6778      569     4221
       Yellowtail V&C     77    169      _    246    3118      161     1662
  Canary rockfish V&C     14     97      _    111    1045      114      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH     34     42      _     76               44      428

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _     10   1341   1351    6939     1644     6400
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     29     29     190       92      285

      Pacific Whiting      _      2      1      3   87069        1    87410

      *Estimates Thru  28MAR  28MAR  28MAR

       HARD DATA THRU   1/98   2/98  12/97

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 20-MAR-98.

  HG = Harvest Guideline
  
  The Lingcod and Bocaccio HGs are commercial (LE and OA) guidelines only, the
  harvest guidelines for recreational catch are not includede here.  
  
  The HG for Pacific Whiting is the total U.S. coastwide 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 1652 metric tons and the open-access
  sablefish harvest guideline is 278 metric tons. Starting in 1995 this
  non-trawl sablefish catch statistic no longer includes treaty Indian catch.
  
  V&C = Van&Col = U.S. Vancouver & Columbia INPFC areas combined
  V&C&E&M = U.S. Vancouver & Columbia & Eureka & Monterey INPFC areas combined
  E&M&C = Eureka & Monterey & Conception INPFC areas combined
  
  SBTS+URCK = Sebastes Complex plus Unspecified Rockfish. Due to the large
  amount of rockfish catch classified as unspecified rockfish (primarily in the
  Monterey and Conception areas) SBTS+URCK is the best estimate of catch for
  Sebastes Complex for the E&M&C area.