PacFIN 24-SEP-98 10:04      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 SEP THRU DEC
           Dover sole    425   2441   2246   5112    8955     9056    10092
       Longspine THDS     66    651    814   1531    4123     3360     4032
      Shortspine THDS     69    379    381    829    1195     1083     1299
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    121    654    503   1278    2282     3232     3609

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    620    633    258   1511    1930     2462     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     95     95              215      261

              Lingcod     33    131    114    278     400     1317     1560

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    135    319      _    454     650      502      607

       Widow Rockfish    262   1544    730   2536    4276     4859     6444

         Sebastes V&C    858   2905      _   3763    6778     2931     4076
       Yellowtail V&C    489   1242      _   1731    3118     1043     1656
  Canary rockfish V&C    148    601      _    749    1045      628      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    309     51      _    360              474      523

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      5    520   4737   5262    6939     4958     6475
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     97     97     190      236      287

      Pacific Whiting   9303  58079   6183  73565   87069    87390    87410

      *Estimates Thru  12SEP  12SEP  12SEP

       HARD DATA THRU   7/98   8/98   6/98

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 18-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.