PacFIN 18-DEC-98 14:08      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    568   3444   3371   7383    8955    10092    10092
       Longspine THDS     76    914   1158   2148    4123     3924     3924
      Shortspine THDS     84    485    561   1130    1195     1418     1418
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    175    961    766   1902    2282     3612     3612

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    509    697    420   1626    1930     3130     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    163    163              262      262

              Lingcod     38    159    137    334     400     1559     1559

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    164    405      _    569     650      607      607

       Widow Rockfish    440   2255    928   3623    4276     6445     6445

         Sebastes V&C   1026   3583      _   4609    6778     4076     4076
       Yellowtail V&C    589   1575      _   2164    3118     1656     1656
  Canary rockfish V&C    170    637      _    807    1045      797      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    352     58      _    410              523      523

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      5    636   5661   6302    6939     6473     6473
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _    132    132     190      288      288

      Pacific Whiting  10513  71620   5723  87856   87069    87410    87410

      *Estimates Thru  05DEC  12DEC  12DEC

       HARD DATA THRU  10/98  11/98   9/98

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 18-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.