PacFIN 05-FEB-99 14:56      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Total Fleet Best Estimates* of 1999 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial
  Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons

                                                     1999    1998 TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     HG  THRU JAN THRU DEC
           Dover sole    134    327    265    726    8955      400     7625
       Longspine THDS      1     55    122    178    3733       52     2184
      Shortspine THDS      4     30     42     76     805       39     1149
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     12     74     37    123    3475       49     1973

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)      1      1     13     15    2940        2     1617

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     10     10               11      187

              Lingcod      1      5      3      9     356       12      334

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C      9     13      _     22     500       22      584

       Widow Rockfish    175    404     74    653    3962       79     3821

         Sebastes V&C     47    166      _    213    4588      124     4696
       Yellowtail V&C     45     87      _    132    2407       59     2211
  Canary rockfish V&C      1      7      _      8     689       14      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH      8      _      _      8                1      409

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _      _    111    111    1396      432     6310
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _      3      3     150       14      131
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _     20     20    3651       84     1180
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      _      3      3     729       82     1234

      Pacific Whiting      _      1      _      1                2    87856

      *Estimates Thru  30JAN  30JAN  30JAN

       HARD DATA THRU  11/98  12/98  10/98

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 03-FEB-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.