PacFIN 02-SEP-98 15:47      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 AUG THRU DEC
           Dover sole    403   2256   2072   4731    8955     8099    10093
       Longspine THDS     64    614    721   1399    4123     3058     4011
      Shortspine THDS     63    343    342    748    1195      999     1323
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    110    599    451   1160    2282     2886     3613

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    563    641    210   1414    1930     1726     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     81     81              187      261

              Lingcod     34    123    103    260     400     1156     1562

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    127    305      _    432     650      446      611

       Widow Rockfish    253   1458    654   2365    4276     4349     6454

         Sebastes V&C    767   2690      _   3457    6778     2720     4238
       Yellowtail V&C    443   1117      _   1560    3118      948     1662
  Canary rockfish V&C    141    569      _    710    1045      560      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    247     38      _    285              348      412

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _    450   4458   4908    6939     4357     6422
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     85     85     190      211      286

      Pacific Whiting   8265  44153   6399  58817   87069    87377    87410

      *Estimates Thru  22AUG  22AUG  22AUG

       HARD DATA THRU   6/98   7/98   5/98

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 28-AUG-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.