PacFIN 17-OCT-01 12:12      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 SEP THRU DEC
           Dover sole    687   3656   2360   6703    7293     6808     8716
       Longspine THDS     14    571    533   1118    2043     1205     1579
      Shortspine THDS     36    223    222    481     546      511      667
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    261   1405    707   2373    2534     1792     2521

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    445    742    333   1520    2282     2168     2321

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     88     88               72       96

              Lingcod     13     30     26     69     203       74       86

       Widow Rockfish    186    713    198   1097    1631     2417     3763
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      9     61     50    120     103      174      218
      Canary rockfish      6     15     10     31      30       37       43

          POP (V&C&E)     50    125      _    175     255       94      127
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    525    905     35   1465    1810     1906     2683
 Near-shore RF, North      _     38     22     60     211       25       33
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     30     34     16     80     740       85       97
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     38    111     23    172     968      294      379
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               13       13

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     16     16      29       12       19
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    232    232     929      263      362
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     42     42     387       47       61
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     10     10      32       16       27
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     12     12     109       40       47
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    192    192     365      120      197
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1                2        2

      Pacific Whiting  17910  53313   2306  73529            80095    80106

      *Estimates Thru  30SEP         30SEP

       HARD DATA THRU  AUG01  SEP01  JUL01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-OCT-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.