PacFIN 06-NOV-98 14:19      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    520   3144   2943   6607    8955     9484    10092
       Longspine THDS     76    834   1020   1930    4123     3496     3915
      Shortspine THDS     81    466    532   1079    1195     1268     1416
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    157    864    676   1697    2282     3352     3609

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    501    691    326   1518    1930     3043     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    123    123              232      261

              Lingcod     36    153    129    318     400     1430     1560

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    155    382      _    537     650      538      607

       Widow Rockfish    384   2004    865   3253    4276     5417     6444

         Sebastes V&C    952   3404      _   4356    6778     3200     4076
       Yellowtail V&C    554   1457      _   2011    3118     1153     1656
  Canary rockfish V&C    162    631      _    793    1045      685      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    356     54      _    410              494      523

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      5    609   5403   6017    6939     5565     6476
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _    117    117     190      261      287

      Pacific Whiting  10551  71823   5907  88281   87069    87398    87410

      *Estimates Thru  31OCT  31OCT  31OCT

       HARD DATA THRU   8/98   9/98   7/98

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-OCT-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.