PacFIN 18-NOV-98 11:56      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 NOV THRU DEC
           Dover sole    532   3176   3082   6790    8955     9783    10092
       Longspine THDS     76    860   1069   2005    4123     3702     3924
      Shortspine THDS     82    460    531   1073    1195     1336     1418
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    160    876    705   1741    2282     3466     3612

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    502    695    400   1597    1930     3098     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    134    134              251      262

              Lingcod     36    154    136    326     400     1494     1559

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    157    388      _    545     650      572      607

       Widow Rockfish    397   2032    896   3325    4276     6011     6445

         Sebastes V&C    962   3421      _   4383    6778     3506     4076
       Yellowtail V&C    560   1494      _   2054    3118     1326     1656
  Canary rockfish V&C    162    634      _    796    1045      737      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    360     58      _    418              513      523

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      5    632   5442   6079    6939     5922     6473
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _    119    119     190      274      288

      Pacific Whiting  10551  71619   5725  87895   87069    87407    87410

      *Estimates Thru  07NOV  07NOV  07NOV

       HARD DATA THRU   8/98  10/98   8/98

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