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iii This report summarizes the 1988 foreign and joint venture groundfish activities in the eastern Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, and off the Washington-Oregon-California coast. Tables contained herein provide estimates of the foreign and joint venture groundfish catches. Estimates of the rockfish and flatfish catches are shown by species group and also by species. Estimates are made of the catches and averages weights of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis), snow (Tanner) crab (Chionoecetes spp.), and king crab (Lithodes and Paralithodes spp.)