PacFIN 14-SEP-01 17:20      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 AUG THRU DEC
           Dover sole    656   3455   2630   6741    7293     6129     8704
       Longspine THDS     12    497    540   1049    2043     1111     1580
      Shortspine THDS     31    194    212    437     546      466      667
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    212   1187    889   2288    2534     1519     2520

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    193    302    238    733    2282     2022     2320

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     95     95               65       95

              Lingcod     11     22     47     80     203       61       85

       Widow Rockfish    152    704    215   1071    1631     1870     3767
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     53     40     98     103      150      217
      Canary rockfish      4     13     15     32      30       30       43

          POP (V&C&E)     41    109      _    150     255       81      127
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    500    872     40   1412    1810     1403     2683
 Near-shore RF, North      _     35     22     57     211       18       33
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     29     27     24     80     740       76       97
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     26     94     24    144     968      257      379
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               12       13

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     17     17      29       11       18
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    272    272     929      218      354
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     41     41     387       41       61
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      6      6      32       12       25
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     10     10     109       37       46
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    147    147     365       95      193
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                2        3

      Pacific Whiting  16055  42037   2406  60498            64996    80106

      *Estimates Thru  31AUG         31AUG

       HARD DATA THRU   7/01   8/01   5/01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 14-SEP-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.