PacFIN 09-OCT-98 14:01      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 OCT THRU DEC
           Dover sole    460   2715   2562   5737    8955     9484    10092
       Longspine THDS     73    731    931   1735    4123     3608     4032
      Shortspine THDS     78    421    434    933    1195     1155     1299
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    136    729    569   1434    2282     3352     3609

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    637    679    289   1605    1930     3043     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    103    103              232      261

              Lingcod     34    142    122    298     400     1430     1560

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    144    348      _    492     650      538      607

       Widow Rockfish    305   1742    780   2827    4276     5417     6444

         Sebastes V&C    922   3159      _   4081    6778     3200     4076
       Yellowtail V&C    527   1365      _   1892    3118     1153     1656
  Canary rockfish V&C    161    641      _    802    1045      685      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    329     51      _    380              494      523

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      5    520   5073   5598    6939     5563     6475
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _    108    108     190      261      287

      Pacific Whiting  10199  68733   6195  85127   87069    87398    87410

      *Estimates Thru  03OCT  30SEP  03OCT

       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.