PacFIN 21-MAY-99 14:39      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 MAY THRU DEC
           Dover sole    377   1844   1622   3843    8955     2876     7982
       Longspine THDS     12    245    441    698    3733      791     2265
      Shortspine THDS     19    117    172    308     805      430     1197
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     58    497    462   1017    3475      646     2050

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     12     19     49     80    2940       56     1634

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    127    127               55      201

              Lingcod      9     40     32     81     356      154      348

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     33     75      _    108     500      216      586

       Widow Rockfish    292   1174    304   1770    3962     1096     3827

 Sebastes Complex V&C    224    738      _    962    4588     1575     4697
       Yellowtail V&C    172    390      _    562    2407      623     2205
  Canary rockfish V&C     19     81      _    100     689      306      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH     39     11      _     50              111      409

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _     65    415    480    1396     1814     4095
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    354    354    3651      688     1268
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      1     89     90     729      721     1266
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _     66    858    924             3223     6629
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      1     29     30     150       46      135

      Pacific Whiting      _      9     96    105             3109    87861

      *Estimates Thru  15MAY  15MAY  15MAY

       HARD DATA THRU   3/99   4/99   1/99

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 21-MAY-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.