PacFIN 17-JAN-02 14:57      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 DEC THRU DEC
           Dover sole    707   3721   2381   6809    7293     8716     8716
       Longspine THDS     15    613    519   1147    2043     1579     1579
      Shortspine THDS     41    227    249    517     546      667      667
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    276   1514    744   2534    2534     2521     2521

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    537    931    346   1814    2282     2322     2322

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    105    105               96       96

              Lingcod     15     34     30     79     203       86       86

       Widow Rockfish    326   1136    300   1762    1631     3763     3763
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      8     64     68    140     103      218      218
      Canary rockfish      7     16      8     31      30       43       43

          POP (V&C&E)     51    136      _    187     255      127      127
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    642    958     40   1640    1810     2683     2683
 Near-shore RF, North      _     38     21     59     211       33       33
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     37    136     15    188     740       97       97
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     34    121     19    174     968      379      379
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               13       13

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     15     15      29       19       19
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    285    285     929      362      362
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     49     49     387       61       61
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     24     24      32       27       27
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     17     17     109       47       47
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    228    228     365      197      197
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                2        2

      Pacific Whiting  17793  53376   2306  73475            80122    80122

      *Estimates Thru  31DEC         31DEC

       HARD DATA THRU  NOV01  DEC01  OCT01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-JAN-2002.

  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.