PacFIN 16-MAY-01 10:35      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 APR THRU DEC
           Dover sole    447   2285   1462   4194    7293     3791     8660
       Longspine THDS      8    222    305    535    2043      813     1618
      Shortspine THDS     13     87     97    197     546      286      613
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     37    300    315    652    2534      567     2512

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      6      4     38     48    2282       25     2287

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     22     22               28       85

              Lingcod      _      _      _      _     203                85

       Widow Rockfish    122    557    284    963    1631      867     3776
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     22     11     35     103       42      151
      Canary rockfish      _      2      2      4      30        3       42

          POP (V&C&E)     12     35      _     47     255       13      123
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    327    603     16    946    1810      115     2678
 Near-shore RF, North      _     15      8     23     211        5       33
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      4      6      2     12     740       19       91
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      9     49     11     69     968       69      405
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1       13

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      5      5      29        3       17
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    130    130     929       93      347
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     12     12     387        4       13
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      3      3      32        1       25
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      2      2     109        2       40
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     69     69     365       31      207
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                3       10

      Pacific Whiting      8     18    518    544              412    85828

      *Estimates Thru  30APR         30APR

       HARD DATA THRU  12/00   4/01   1/01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-MAY-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.