PacFIN 31-JUL-98 12:58      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 JUL THRU DEC
           Dover sole    349   1984   1857   4190    8955     7109    10093
       Longspine THDS     54    524    629   1207    4123     2785     4011
      Shortspine THDS     44    291    294    629    1195      891     1323
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     90    501    386    977    2282     2522     3613

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     46     35     50    131    1930      648     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     61     61              156      261

              Lingcod     28    108     93    229     400      946     1562

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     98    257      _    355     650      384      611

       Widow Rockfish    174   1111    562   1847    4276     3889     6454

         Sebastes V&C    637   2231      _   2868    6778     2286     4238
       Yellowtail V&C    363    877      _   1240    3118      760     1662
  Canary rockfish V&C    109    490      _    599    1045      489      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    193     25      _    218              286      412

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _    390   3989   4379    6939     3704     6422
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     70     70     190      181      286

      Pacific Whiting   5741  29451   5723  40915   87069    61070    87410

      *Estimates Thru  25JUL  25JUL  25JUL

       HARD DATA THRU   5/98   6/98   4/98

  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.