PacFIN 09-JUL-99 15:23      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    441   2382   2057   4880    8955     3560     7982
       Longspine THDS     14    370    558    942    3733     1022     2265
      Shortspine THDS     23    171    208    402     805      559     1197
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    131    839    626   1596    3475      832     2050

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     25     44     71    140    2940       85     1634

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    147    147               74      201

              Lingcod     18     85     62    165     356      204      348

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     62    145      _    207     500      288      586

       Widow Rockfish    307   1367    344   2018    3962     1543     3827

 Sebastes Complex V&C    392   1409      _   1801    4588     2200     4697
       Yellowtail V&C    258    758      _   1016    2407      875     2205
  Canary rockfish V&C     58    201      _    259     689      441      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    104     17      _    121              191      409

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _    114    623    737    1396     2306     4095
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    428    428    3651      867     1268
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      1    129    130     729      990     1266
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _    115   1180   1295             4163     6629
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      1     43     44     150       62      135

      Pacific Whiting   1644   8955    632  11231            21796    87861

      *Estimates Thru  30JUN  30JUN  30JUN

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

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 09-JUL-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.