PacFIN 20-FEB-02 09:36      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Limited Entry Best Estimates* of 2002 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial
  Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons

                                                     2002    2001 TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     OY  THRU JAN THRU DEC
           Dover sole     39    234    158    431              633     6826
       Longspine THDS      _     27     43     70               72     1152
      Shortspine THDS      1     12     26     39     757       44      524
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)      6     35     23     64    1601      108     2540

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      _      _      7      7    1442        3     1862

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     11     11                6      115

              Lingcod      _      _      1      1     163                80

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      1      1     575      170     1752
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     10      1     13     130       10      143
      Canary rockfish      _      _      _      _      30        1       31

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                         9
          POP (V&C&E)      4      5      _      9               11      187
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)      2      6      _      8    2007      160     1638
 Near-shore RF, North      _      1      _      1     161        3       58
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      _      _      _      _     928        1      188
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      2      6      2     10    1150       17      174
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      2      2      21        1       16
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      8      8     929       11      305
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _      2      2                5       55
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      _      _      23        1       26
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      1      1     194        2       20
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     25     25     497       12      229
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         7

      Pacific Whiting      _      2      _      2                     73474

      *Estimates Thru  31JAN         31JAN

       HARD DATA THRU  DEC01  JAN02  NOV01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-FEB-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 1442 metric tons and
  the open-access sablefish harvest guideline is 338 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.