PacFIN 26-APR-02 12:19      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 MAR THRU DEC
           Dover sole    197   1014    556   1767             2544     6828
       Longspine THDS      8    321    216    545              317     1150
      Shortspine THDS     10     94    112    216     757      148      529
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     32    258    114    404    1601      378     2524

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     12      5     30     47    1442       19     1873

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     40     40               21      118

              Lingcod      2      1      5      8     163                79

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      3      3     575      589     1770
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      3     25      5     33     130       33      146
      Canary rockfish      _      _      1      1      30        2       31

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                1        9
          POP (V&C&E)     14     27      _     41               34      188
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     13     12      _     25    2007      660     1612
 Near-shore RF, North      _      3      1      4     161       16       58
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      _      _      _      _     928        6      179
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      6     26      6     38    1150       45      171
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      9      9      21        3       16
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     69     69     929       57      311
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     16     16               16       57
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      1      1      23        3       27
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      4      4     194        4       19
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    132    132     497       45      236
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         7

      Pacific Whiting      _      3      _      3                8    73474

      *Estimates Thru  31MAR         30MAR

       HARD DATA THRU  FEB02  MAR02  DEC01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 26-APR-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.