PacFIN 16-NOV-01 12:16      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 OCT THRU DEC
           Dover sole    701   3699   2306   6706    7293     7382     8716
       Longspine THDS     15    602    516   1133    2043     1281     1579
      Shortspine THDS     41    237    225    503     546      545      667
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    286   1514    718   2518    2534     2090     2521

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    588    923    263   1774    2282     2232     2321

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     90     90               79       96

              Lingcod     15     34     25     74     203       85       86

       Widow Rockfish    186    715    200   1101    1631     2937     3763
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      9     64     58    131     103      193      218
      Canary rockfish      6     16      8     30      30       41       43

          POP (V&C&E)     52    136      _    188     255      114      127
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    536    912     36   1484    1810     2230     2683
 Near-shore RF, North      _     38     23     61     211       28       33
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     31     33     16     80     740       92       97
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     41    120     19    180     968      335      379
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               13       13

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     15     15      29       15       19
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    240    240     929      293      362
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     42     42     387       48       61
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     16     16      32       19       27
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     14     14     109       43       47
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    201    201     365      142      197
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      2      2                2        2

      Pacific Whiting  17910  53369   2306  73585            80100    80106

      *Estimates Thru  31OCT         31OCT

       HARD DATA THRU  AUG01  OCT01  AUG01

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