PacFIN 06-APR-99 09:26      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     OY  THRU MAR THRU DEC
           Dover sole    268   1257   1045   2570    8955     1630     7982
       Longspine THDS      4    137    294    435    3733      359     2265
      Shortspine THDS      9     69    108    186     805      195     1197
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     33    258    213    504    3475      282     2053

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)      1      1     31     33    2940       19     1630

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     78     78               28      201

              Lingcod      2     14     15     31     356       55      348

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     14     31      _     45     500       97      586

       Widow Rockfish    224    913    225   1362    3962      431     3827

 Sebastes Complex V&C     76    356      _    432    4588      658     4694
       Yellowtail V&C     69    200      _    269    2407      255     2202
  Canary rockfish V&C      2     31      _     33     689      125      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH     23     38      _     61               29      410

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _     10    389    399    1396      779     4101
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    217    217    3651      327     1262
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      _     49     49     729      382     1266
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _     10    655    665             1488     6629
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     17     17     150       30      141

      Pacific Whiting      _      4      _      4               21    87861

      *Estimates Thru  27MAR  27MAR  27MAR

       HARD DATA THRU   1/99   2/99  12/98

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-MAR-99.

  OY = Optimum Yield     
  The OYs are commercial (LE and OA) guidelines only, the anticipated
  recreational catches are not included here.  
  
  The OY 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

  Sebastes Complex includes all sebastes spp. except widow rockfish, POP,
  shortbelly rockfish. Thornyheads are also excluded.
  
  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.

  Sebastes So. includes all sebastes spp. except widow rockfish, POP, shortbelly
  rockfish, chilipepper, and splitnose rockfish. Thornyheads are also excluded.