PacFIN 19-JUN-98 16:54      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 JUN THRU DEC
           Dover sole    290   1499   1394   3183    8955     6175    10093
       Longspine THDS     36    384    479    899    4123     2479     4011
      Shortspine THDS     30    200    228    458    1195      786     1323
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     66    356    291    713    2282     2123     3613

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     22     20     25     67    1930      601     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     38     38              124      261

              Lingcod     18     79     64    161     400      733     1562

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     71    173      _    244     650      317      611

       Widow Rockfish    104    722    411   1237    4276     3351     6454

         Sebastes V&C    372   1440      _   1812    6778     1831     4238
       Yellowtail V&C    189    528      _    717    3118      548     1662
  Canary rockfish V&C     60    330      _    390    1045      419      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    158     25      _    183              212      412

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _    323   2974   3297    6939     3093     6422
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     54     54     190      159      286

      Pacific Whiting      _     19   3158   3177   87069    22039    87410

      *Estimates Thru  13JUN  13JUN  13JUN

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

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-JUN-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.