PacFIN 31-JUL-01 15:29      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 JUN THRU DEC
           Dover sole    559   3009   1829   5397    7293     4955     8704
       Longspine THDS     12    375    352    739    2043      966     1590
      Shortspine THDS     21    141    157    319     546      377      656
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    127    723    558   1408    2534     1060     2520

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     23     10     38     71    2282       50     2294

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     58     58               46       95

              Lingcod      6     11     32     49     203       27       85

       Widow Rockfish    152    688    224   1064    1631     1269     3771
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     39     39     82     103      108      238
      Canary rockfish      1      7      6     14      30       16       43

          POP (V&C&E)     23     69      1     93     255       53      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    432    778     39   1249    1810      691     2685
 Near-shore RF, North      _     27     16     43     211       12       33
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     15     15     24     54     740       54       96
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     15     74     21    110     968      145      350
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1                6       13

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      8      8      29        8       18
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    226    226     929      154      354
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     30     30     387       33       61
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      3      3      32        7       25
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      8      8     109       31       46
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     93     93     365       61      193
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        3

      Pacific Whiting   3454   7794   3456  14704            12910    85828

      *Estimates Thru  30JUN         30JUN

       HARD DATA THRU   5/01   6/01   4/01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 30-JUL-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.