PacFIN 02-JUL-99 13:11      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 JUN THRU DEC
           Dover sole    439   2338   2043   4820    8955     3560     7982
       Longspine THDS     14    353    555    922    3733     1022     2265
      Shortspine THDS     23    165    206    394     805      559     1197
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    127    817    621   1565    3475      832     2050

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     24     41     70    135    2940       85     1634

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    146    146               74      201

              Lingcod     18     80     58    156     356      204      348

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     62    140      _    202     500      288      586

       Widow Rockfish    303   1345    339   1987    3962     1543     3827

 Sebastes Complex V&C    371   1289      _   1660    4588     2200     4697
       Yellowtail V&C    241    681      _    922    2407      875     2205
  Canary rockfish V&C     54    188      _    242     689      441      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH     99     17      _    116              191      409

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _    114    605    719    1396     2306     4095
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    425    425    3651      867     1268
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      1    128    129     729      990     1266
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _    115   1158   1273             4163     6629
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      1     43     44     150       62      135

      Pacific Whiting   1137   2331    507   3975            21796    87861

      *Estimates Thru  26JUN  26JUN  26JUN

       HARD DATA THRU   4/99   5/99   2/99

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 16-JUN-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.