PacFIN 09-JUL-99 15:22      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 JUL THRU DEC
           Dover sole    442   2382   2068   4892    8955     4341     7982
       Longspine THDS     14    370    563    947    3733     1266     2265
      Shortspine THDS     23    171    211    405     805      693     1197
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    134    839    634   1607    3475     1062     2050

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     27     44     71    142    2940      138     1634

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    147    147               97      201

              Lingcod     18     85     62    165     356      256      348

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     63    145      _    208     500      373      586

       Widow Rockfish    310   1367    344   2021    3962     2088     3827

 Sebastes Complex V&C    408   1411      _   1819    4588     2982     4697
       Yellowtail V&C    270    759      _   1029    2407     1314     2205
  Canary rockfish V&C     61    201      _    262     689      582      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    107     17      _    124              270      409

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _    114    625    739    1396     2814     4095
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    428    428    3651      967     1268
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      1    129    130     729     1030     1266
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _    115   1182   1297             4811     6629
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      1     43     44     150       77      135

      Pacific Whiting   2024   9008    680  11712            51095    87861

      *Estimates Thru  03JUL  03JUL  03JUL

       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.