PacFIN 09-OCT-98 14:02      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    456   2715   2537   5708    8955     9056    10092
       Longspine THDS     71    731    924   1726    4123     3360     4032
      Shortspine THDS     76    421    432    929    1195     1083     1299
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    134    729    564   1427    2282     3232     3609

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    634    679    285   1598    1930     2462     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    103    103              215      261

              Lingcod     34    142    121    297     400     1317     1560

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    144    348      _    492     650      502      607

       Widow Rockfish    300   1742    780   2822    4276     4859     6444

         Sebastes V&C    915   3159      _   4074    6778     2931     4076
       Yellowtail V&C    524   1365      _   1889    3118     1043     1656
  Canary rockfish V&C    159    641      _    800    1045      628      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    326     51      _    377              474      523

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      5    520   5063   5588    6939     4958     6475
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _    107    107     190      236      287

      Pacific Whiting  10054  68733   6195  84982   87069    87390    87410

      *Estimates Thru  30SEP  30SEP  30SEP

       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 shoreside 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.