PacFIN 16-AUG-01 16:13      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 JUL THRU DEC
           Dover sole    607   3285   2187   6079    7293     5637     8704
       Longspine THDS     14    451    437    902    2043     1052     1590
      Shortspine THDS     22    177    178    377     546      416      656
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    168    991    709   1868    2534     1362     2520

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     41     26     58    125    2282       72     2294

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     84     84               55       95

              Lingcod      8     16     35     59     203       44       85

       Widow Rockfish    152    718    213   1083    1631     1622     3771
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     50     40     94     103      141      238
      Canary rockfish      2     14     10     26      30       25       43

          POP (V&C&E)     29     93      _    122     255       71      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    461    848     39   1348    1810     1131     2685
 Near-shore RF, North      _     30     21     51     211       16       33
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     15     21     22     58     740       67       96
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     22     85     16    123     968      181      350
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1                7       13

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     14     14      29        9       18
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    235    235     929      177      354
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     36     36     387       35       61
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      5      5      32        8       25
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      9      9     109       34       46
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    120    120     365       70      193
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        3

      Pacific Whiting   9376  31018   2406  42800            36349    85828

      *Estimates Thru  31JUL         31JUL

       HARD DATA THRU   6/01   7/01   5/01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 16-AUG-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.