PacFIN 19-DEC-01 15:02      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 NOV THRU DEC
           Dover sole    706   3707   2357   6770    7293     8074     8716
       Longspine THDS     15    613    514   1142    2043     1449     1579
      Shortspine THDS     41    227    246    514     546      614      667
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    276   1514    743   2533    2534     2334     2521

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    548    931    299   1778    2282     2287     2322

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     90     90               88       96

              Lingcod     15     34     27     76     203       86       86

       Widow Rockfish    263    996    285   1544    1631     3473     3763
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      8     64     66    138     103      209      218
      Canary rockfish      7     16      8     31      30       43       43

          POP (V&C&E)     51    136      _    187     255      119      127
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    604    945     40   1589    1810     2521     2683
 Near-shore RF, North      _     38     20     58     211       31       33
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     38     93     15    146     740       95       97
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     33    121     19    173     968      358      379
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               13       13

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     15     15      29       17       19
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    259    259     929      329      362
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     45     45     387       57       61
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     20     20      32       23       27
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     15     15     109       45       47
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    198    198     365      177      197
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      2      2                2        2

      Pacific Whiting  17793  53376   2306  73475            80117    80122

      *Estimates Thru  30NOV         30NOV

       HARD DATA THRU  OCT01  NOV01  SEP01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 19-DEC-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.