PacFIN 24-JUL-98 13:57      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    154    879    586   1619    8955     3117    10093
       Longspine THDS     14    154    200    368    4123     1388     4011
      Shortspine THDS      8     80     93    181    1195      400     1323
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     24    158     96    278    2282      890     3613

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)      6      4      9     19    1930      205     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     27     27               59      261

              Lingcod      6     28     18     52     400      221     1562

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     24     75      _     99     650       95      611

       Widow Rockfish     53    233    141    427    4276     1849     6454

         Sebastes V&C    124    569      _    693    6778      576     4238
       Yellowtail V&C     74    186      _    260    3118      161     1662
  Canary rockfish V&C     16    110      _    126    1045      114      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH     28      _      _     28               37      412

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _     74   1307   1381    6939     1644     6422
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     29     29     190       92      286

      Pacific Whiting      _      5     16     21   87069        1    87410

      *Estimates Thru  31MAR  31MAR  31MAR

       HARD DATA THRU   4/98   5/98   3/98

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 22-JUL-98.

  HG = Harvest Guideline
  
  The Lingcod and Bocaccio HGs are commercial (LE and OA) guidelines only, the
  harvest guidelines for recreational catch are not included 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.