PacFIN 23-APR-99 13:34      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     OY  THRU APR THRU DEC
           Dover sole    323   1517   1075   2915    8955     2112     7982
       Longspine THDS      5    167    270    442    3733      533     2265
      Shortspine THDS     11     92    110    213     805      288     1197
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     40    335    292    667    3475      424     2053

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)      4      1     34     39    2940       35     1630

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    109    109               35      201

              Lingcod      3     20     14     37     356       95      348

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     20     53      _     73     500      150      586

       Widow Rockfish    294   1063    239   1596    3962      674     3827

 Sebastes Complex V&C    128    458      _    586    4588     1025     4694
       Yellowtail V&C    118    240      _    358    2407      387     2202
  Canary rockfish V&C      3     42      _     45     689      210      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH     34      1      _     35               62      410

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _     23    423    446    1396     1133     4095
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    224    224    3651      472     1268
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      _     55     55     729      535     1266
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _     23    702    725             2140     6629
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      _     20     20     150       33      135

      Pacific Whiting      _      5      _      5             1921    87861

      *Estimates Thru  17APR  17APR  03APR

       HARD DATA THRU   1/99   3/99   1/99

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-APR-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.