PacFIN 04-SEP-98 17:00      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    408   2256   2178   4842    8955     8099    10093
       Longspine THDS     66    614    763   1443    4123     3058     4011
      Shortspine THDS     64    343    358    765    1195      999     1323
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    116    599    472   1187    2282     2886     3613

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    567    641    220   1428    1930     1726     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     83     83              187      261

              Lingcod     34    123    107    264     400     1156     1562

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    133    305      _    438     650      446      611

       Widow Rockfish    259   1458    679   2396    4276     4349     6454

         Sebastes V&C    796   2690      _   3486    6778     2720     4238
       Yellowtail V&C    458   1117      _   1575    3118      948     1662
  Canary rockfish V&C    147    569      _    716    1045      560      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    257     38      _    295              348      412

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _    450   4609   5059    6939     4357     6422
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     90     90     190      211      286

      Pacific Whiting   8616  44153   6399  59168   87069    87377    87410

      *Estimates Thru  29AUG  22AUG  29AUG

       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.