PacFIN 14-DEC-98 13:50      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 DEC THRU DEC
           Dover sole    567   3462   3320   7349    8955    10092    10092
       Longspine THDS     78    919   1140   2137    4123     3924     3924
      Shortspine THDS     85    487    557   1129    1195     1418     1418
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    171    968    757   1896    2282     3612     3612

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    505    695    419   1619    1930     3130     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    145    145              262      262

              Lingcod     39    159    139    337     400     1559     1559

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    163    405      _    568     650      607      607

       Widow Rockfish    441   2237    930   3608    4276     6445     6445

         Sebastes V&C   1028   3615      _   4643    6778     4076     4076
       Yellowtail V&C    589   1570      _   2159    3118     1656     1656
  Canary rockfish V&C    169    638      _    807    1045      797      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    357     58      _    415              523      523

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      5    632   5690   6327    6939     6473     6473
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _    128    128     190      288      288

      Pacific Whiting  10342  71620   5725  87687   87069    87410    87410

      *Estimates Thru  05DEC  30NOV  05DEC

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

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 14-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.