National Marine Fisheries Service              Prepared: 08/14/00 at  2:04 PM
 P.O. Box 21668                                       NMFS/AKR Fish Management

       1998 BERING SEA & ALEUTIANS GROUNDFISH DISCARDS IN ROUND METRIC TONS 
     Data are from Weekly Production and Observer Reports through 12/26/98

                                 SHORESIDE         MOTHERSHIP     CATCHER-PROC
                            --------------------   ------------   ------------
                            TOTAL  AT-SEA  PLANT   TOTAL          TOTAL       
                            CATCH  DISC    DISC    CATCH  DISC    CATCH   DISC
BERING SEA               
 Other Rockfish                36      11     0       0      0     151      56
 Pacific Ocean Perch          510      47     0      10      1     437      95
 Other Red Rockfish            11       9     0       0      0      86      50
 Sablefish (Fixed Gear)       228      19     0       0      0     212      80
 Sablefish (Trawl)              5       0     0       0      0     110      12
 Greenland Turbot             592     143     0      23     23    7457     699
 Pollock - Inshore         352897    2246     0       0      0    1601     306
 Pollock - Offshore             0       0     0  150616    681  513965   12637

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS         
 Other Rockfish                24       1     0      26     26     314     210
 Pacific Ocean Perch, East      2       1     0      16     16    1835     169
 Pacific Ocean Perch, Cent      1       0     0       1      1    2518     328
 Pacific Ocean Perch, West      1       0     0       0      0    4674     490
 Sharpchin/Northern             0       0     0      35     35    3639    3248
 Shortraker/Rougheye Fixed      6       6     0       0      0     246     180
 Shortraker/Rougheye Trawl      0       0     0       1      1     408      32
 Atka Mackerel - Eastern      317     311     0       8      8   11272    1746
               - Jig            0       0     0       0      0       0       0
 Atka Mackerel - Central        0       0     0       1      1   20028    2655
 Atka Mackerel - Western        0       0     0       0      0   24248     784
 Sablefish (Fixed Gear)       298       2     0       0      0     225      14
 Sablefish (Trawl)              0       0     0       0      0      13       4
 Greenland Turbot              93      24     0       1      1     589      52
 Pollock - Inshore           7230       1     0       0      0       1       1
 Pollock - Offshore             0       0     0     121     45   14701     115

BERING SEA & ALEUTIANS   
 Arrowtooth Flounder         1144     997     0     174    164   13894   11297
 Flathead Sole               1081     840     0     299    245   23005    6042
 Other Flatfish               874     210     0     171    161   14303   11537
 Other Species               1759    1673     0     237    234   23368   21684
 Pacific Cod (Trawl - C/P)      0       0     0       0      0   41639     922
 Pacific Cod (Trawl - C/V)  31508      87     0    8161    105       0       0
 Pacific Cod (Fixed Gear)    9563      79     0     568      0  101543    2937
 Pacific Cod (Jig)            191       0     0       1      0       0       0
 Rock Sole                   2404    2360     0     239    236   31000   18413
 Squid                        322      42     0       4      3     248     158
 Yellowfin Sole               323     213     0     474    118  100357   20557

BOGOSLOF                 
 Pollock - Inshore              1       1     0       0      0       5       1
 Pollock - Offshore             0       0     0       0      0       2       1
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 TOTALS:                   411421    9323     0  161187   2105  958094  117512