PacFIN 17-APR-98 14:57      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 APR THRU DEC
           Dover sole    166    972    771   1909    8955     4277    10093
       Longspine THDS     21    189    250    460    4123     1811     4011
      Shortspine THDS     13     96    114    223    1195      548     1323
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     30    187    142    359    2282     1273     3613

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     10      7     10     27    1930      318     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _      9      9               81      261

              Lingcod      9     33     20     62     400      342     1562

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     32     87      _    119     650      155      611

       Widow Rockfish     55    269    213    537    4276     2341     6454

         Sebastes V&C    146    618      _    764    6778      899     4221
       Yellowtail V&C     87    220      _    307    3118      262     1662
  Canary rockfish V&C     18    135      _    153    1045      190      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH     45     46      _     91               92      428

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _     74   1625   1699    6939     2090     6422
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     32     32     190      119      286

      Pacific Whiting      _      5      1      6   87069     2064    87410

      *Estimates Thru  11APR  11APR  11APR

       HARD DATA THRU   2/98   3/98  12/97

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