PacFIN 15-MAR-99 16:59      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    621   3805   3556   7982    8955    10092    10092
       Longspine THDS     76    953   1237   2266    4123     3920     3920
      Shortspine THDS     86    506    604   1196    1195     1427     1427
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    190   1055    808   2053    2282     3612     3612

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)    507    696    427   1630    1930     3130     3130

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    201    201              262      262

              Lingcod     38    161    149    348     400     1559     1559

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C    171    415      _    586     650      607      607

       Widow Rockfish    524   2366    928   3818    4276     6453     6453

         Sebastes V&C   1056   3637      _   4693    6778     4076     4076
       Yellowtail V&C    603   1598      _   2201    3118     1656     1656
  Canary rockfish V&C    171    606      _    777    1045      797      797
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    346     63      _    409              523      523

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      5    677   5947   6629    6939     6484     6484
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _    141    141     190      316      316
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      5   1258   1263             2032     2032
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      9   1257   1266              482      482

      Pacific Whiting  10513  71625   5723  87861   87069    87410    87410

      *Estimates Thru  31DEC  31DEC  31DEC

       HARD DATA THRU  12/98   1/99  12/98

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 12-MAR-99.

  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 2517 metric tons and the open-access
  sablefish harvest guideline is 423 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.