PacFIN 15-MAY-98 16:49      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 MAY THRU DEC
           Dover sole    216   1162   1044   2422    8955     5352    10093
       Longspine THDS     24    252    350    626    4123     2199     4011
      Shortspine THDS     20    131    160    311    1195      687     1323
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     43    249    218    510    2282     1742     3613

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     18     13     15     46    1930      467     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     11     11              104      261

              Lingcod     12     49     35     96     400      562     1562

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     41    117      _    158     650      234      611

       Widow Rockfish     74    364    309    747    4276     2754     6454

         Sebastes V&C    236    923      _   1159    6778     1358     4221
       Yellowtail V&C    122    315      _    437    3118      403     1662
  Canary rockfish V&C     27    203      _    230    1045      310      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH     73      2      _     75              164      428

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _     74   2186   2260    6939     2721     6422
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     40     40     190      140      286

      Pacific Whiting      _     13   1680   1693   87069     4349    87410

      *Estimates Thru  09MAY  09MAY  09MAY

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

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