PacFIN 23-JUL-99 15:25      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    466   2455   2072   4993    8955     4328     7969
       Longspine THDS     19    395    560    974    3733     1266     2265
      Shortspine THDS     25    178    223    426     805      693     1197
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    150    881    504   1535    3475     1061     2050

  NTW Sable (V&C&E&M)     34     50     73    157    2940      138     1633

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    110    110               97      201

              Lingcod     23     94     69    186     356      255      348

 Pac. Ocean Perch V&C     70    155      _    225     500      373      586

       Widow Rockfish    323   1402    404   2129    3962     2088     3827

 Sebastes Complex V&C    464   1421      _   1885    4588     2958     4673
       Yellowtail V&C    311    732      _   1043    2407     1293     2183
  Canary rockfish V&C     71    214      _    285     689      582      776
      V&C UNSP RCKFSH    120     37      _    157              267      406

 Sebastes So. (E&M&C)      _    201    660    861    1396     2814     4095
  Chilipepper (E&M&C)      _      _    504    504    3651      967     1268
 Splitnose RF (E&M&C)      _      3    149    152     729     1030     1266
    SBTS+URCK (E&M&C)      _    204   1313   1517             4811     6629
     Bocaccio (E&M&C)      _      2     41     43     150       77      135

      Pacific Whiting   3248  17775   1170  22193            51095    87861

      *Estimates Thru  17JUL  17JUL  17JUL

       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.