PacFIN 07-DEC-98 15:33      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    558   3432   3312   7302    8955     9783    10092
       Longspine THDS     78    918   1137   2133    4123     3702     3924
      Shortspine THDS     84    484    555   1123    1195     1336     1418
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    171    959    755   1885    2282     3466     3612

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    505    695    418   1618    1930     3098     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    142    142              251      262

              Lingcod     38    159    140    337     400     1494     1559

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    163    402      _    565     650      572      607

       Widow Rockfish    441   2253    923   3617    4276     6011     6445

         Sebastes V&C   1027   3605      _   4632    6778     3506     4076
       Yellowtail V&C    589   1568      _   2157    3118     1326     1656
  Canary rockfish V&C    169    638      _    807    1045      737      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    357     58      _    415              513      523

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      5    632   5636   6273    6939     5922     6473
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _    127    127     190      274      288

      Pacific Whiting  10342  71620   5725  87687   87069    87407    87410

      *Estimates Thru  21NOV  28NOV  28NOV

       HARD DATA THRU   9/98  10/98   8/98

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 04-DEC-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.