PacFIN 15-MAR-02 16:23      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 FEB THRU DEC
           Dover sole     79    600    375   1054             1503     6828
       Longspine THDS      3    168    129    300              170     1154
      Shortspine THDS      4     55     65    124     757       88      526
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     15    140     69    224    1601      217     2534

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      2      1     16     19    1442        9     1873

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     34     34               10      118

              Lingcod      1      1      3      5     163                79

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      2      2     575      388     1752
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     16      2     20     130       22      143
      Canary rockfish      _      _      _      _      30        1       31

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                1        9
          POP (V&C&E)      7     15      _     22               23      187
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)      5      8      _     13    2007      383     1638
 Near-shore RF, North      _      1      _      1     161        9       58
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      _      _      _      _     928        3      188
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      3     17      6     26    1150       30      174
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      5      5      21        2       16
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     44     44     929       37      311
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     12     12                9       57
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      1      1      23        2       27
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      4      4     194        3       19
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    103    103     497       27      236
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         7

      Pacific Whiting      _      3      _      3                     73474

      *Estimates Thru  28FEB         28FEB

       HARD DATA THRU  DEC01  FEB02  DEC01

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