PacFIN 09-APR-99 14:55      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 APR THRU DEC
           Dover sole    295   1331   1137   2763    8955     2112     7982
       Longspine THDS      4    149    308    461    3733      532     2265
      Shortspine THDS      9     75    113    197     805      288     1197
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     36    284    293    613    3475      424     2053

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)      2      2     37     41    2940       35     1630

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    118    118               35      201

              Lingcod      2     15     15     32     356       95      348

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     17     39      _     56     500      150      586

       Widow Rockfish    258    969    251   1478    3962      674     3827

 Sebastes Complex V&C     98    352      _    450    4588     1025     4694
       Yellowtail V&C     88    202      _    290    2407      387     2202
  Canary rockfish V&C      2     37      _     39     689      210      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH     29     38      _     67               62      410

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _     10    489    499    1396     1139     4101
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    217    217    3651      466     1262
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      _     49     49     729      535     1266
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _     10    755    765             2140     6629
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     22     22     150       39      141

      Pacific Whiting      _      4      _      4             1921    87861

      *Estimates Thru  03APR  31MAR  03APR

       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.