PacFIN 28-MAR-01 12:19      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Limited Entry Best Estimates* of 2001 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial
  Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons

                                                     2001    2000 TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     OY  THRU FEB THRU DEC
           Dover sole    174    941    485   1600    7293     1475     8641
       Longspine THDS      2     91    104    197    2043      326     1520
      Shortspine THDS      6     40     40     86     546      124      624
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     14    123    122    259    2534      220     2585

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      1      2     14     17    2282        9     2226

 Sablefish Conception      _      _      5      5               13       85

              Lingcod      _      _      _      _     203                85

       Widow Rockfish     63    244    130    437    1631      376     3766
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     11      1     13     103       26      185
      Canary rockfish      _      1      _      1      30                42

          POP (V&C&E)      6     16      _     22     255        7      137
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    134    223      2    359    1810       40     2762
 Near-shore RF, North      _      6      3      9     211        1       34
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      1      1      _      2     740        1       98
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      4     25      3     32     968       30      377
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                        13

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      5      5      29        1       19
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     81     81     929       20      345
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     10     10     387        9       42
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      1      1      32        1       24
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      1      1     109                40
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     33     33     365       11      195
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                2       13

      Pacific Whiting      4      _      _      4                     85828

      *Estimates Thru  28FEB         28FEB

       HARD DATA THRU  12/00   2/01  11/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 23-MAR-2001.

  OY = Optimum Yield     
  The OYs are commercial (LE and OA) guidelines only, the anticipated
  recreational catches are not included on this report.  
  
  The OY for Pacific Whiting is the total U.S. coastwide shoreside allocation.
  
  * The nontrawl (NTW) sablefish catch displayed on the Total Fleet report
  includes catches for both the limited entry and open access fisheries. The 
  nontrawl limited-entry sablefish harvest guideline is 2282 metric tons and
  the open-access sablefish harvest guideline is 535 metric tons. The non-
  trawl sablefish catch statistic does not include treaty Indian catch.
  
  V&C&E   = U.S. Vancouver & Columbia & Eureka INPFC areas combined
  V&C&E&M = U.S. Vancouver & Columbia & Eureka & Monterey INPFC areas combined
  MT&CP   = Monterey and Conception INPFC areas combined.