PacFIN 11-SEP-98 15:46      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    409   2424   2213   5046    8955     8098    10092
       Longspine THDS     67    650    787   1504    4123     3074     4032
      Shortspine THDS     65    374    369    808    1195      981     1299
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    117    645    480   1242    2282     2884     3609

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    575    745    225   1545    1930     1726     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     86     86              187      261

              Lingcod     35    128    108    271     400     1155     1560

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    134    327      _    461     650      444      607

       Widow Rockfish    261   1728    692   2681    4276     4340     6444

         Sebastes V&C    804   2910      _   3714    6778     2629     4076
       Yellowtail V&C    463   1226      _   1689    3118      950     1656
  Canary rockfish V&C    148    602      _    750    1045      560      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    260     38      _    298              432      523

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _    450   4666   5116    6939     4369     6475
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     91     91     190      211      287

      Pacific Whiting   8746  54100   6399  69245   87069    87377    87410

      *Estimates Thru  31AUG  31AUG  31AUG

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

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 09-SEP-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.