PacFIN 16-FEB-99 16:18      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    132    355    294    781    8955      400     7842
       Longspine THDS      1     55    131    187    3733       52     2237
      Shortspine THDS      4     30     46     80     805       39     1179
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     13     82     40    135    3475       49     2024

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)      1      1     13     15    2940        2     1628

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     11     11               11      197

              Lingcod      1      6      4     11     356       12      338

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C      9     12      _     21     500       22      586

       Widow Rockfish    176    495     77    748    3962       79     3807

         Sebastes V&C     46    149      _    195    4588      124     4694
       Yellowtail V&C     46    104      _    150    2407       59     2201
  Canary rockfish V&C      1     11      _     12     689       14      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH      8     27      _     35                1      410

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _      8    136    144    1396      432     6518
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _      5      5     150       14      138
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _     49     49    3651       84     1228
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      _      7      7     729       82     1259

      Pacific Whiting      _      4      _      4                2    87861

      *Estimates Thru  30JAN  31JAN  31JAN

       HARD DATA THRU  12/98   1/99  11/98

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 16-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.