PacFIN 12-MAR-99 16:34      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 MAR THRU DEC
           Dover sole    134    517    602   1253    8955     1630     7982
       Longspine THDS      1     62    201    264    3733      359     2265
      Shortspine THDS      4     37     79    120     805      195     1197
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     13    111     77    201    3475      282     2053

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)      1      1     17     19    2940       19     1630

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     29     29               28      201

              Lingcod      1      7      9     17     356       55      348

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C      9     16      _     25     500       97      586

       Widow Rockfish    176    627    144    947    3962      432     3818

         Sebastes V&C     47    190      _    237    4588      658     4694
       Yellowtail V&C     46    113      _    159    2407      255     2201
  Canary rockfish V&C      1     13      _     14     689      125      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH      8     27      _     35               29      410

    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _      8    195    203    1396     1488     6629
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     10     10     150       30      141
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    138    138    3651      327     1262
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      _     36     36     729      382     1266

      Pacific Whiting      _      4      _      4               21    87861

      *Estimates Thru  27FEB  06MAR  06MAR

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

  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.