PacFIN 16-JUL-99 15:57      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    457   2423   2021   4901    8955     4328     7969
       Longspine THDS     14    386    547    947    3733     1266     2265
      Shortspine THDS     23    176    218    417     805      693     1197
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    144    869    487   1500    3475     1061     2050

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     31     44     65    140    2940      138     1633

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    104    104               97      201

              Lingcod     22     91     66    179     356      255      348

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     68    151      _    219     500      373      586

       Widow Rockfish    322   1395    397   2114    3962     2088     3827

 Sebastes Complex V&C    442   1399      _   1841    4588     2958     4673
       Yellowtail V&C    293    720      _   1013    2407     1293     2183
  Canary rockfish V&C     68    210      _    278     689      582      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    116     37      _    153              267      406

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _    201    633    834    1396     2814     4095
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    443    443    3651      967     1268
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      3    132    135     729     1030     1266
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _    204   1208   1412             4811     6629
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      2     38     40     150       77      135

      Pacific Whiting   2512  15256    922  18690            51095    87861

      *Estimates Thru  10JUL  10JUL  10JUL

       HARD DATA THRU   5/99   6/99   3/99

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