PacFIN 17-MAY-02 19:11      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 APR THRU DEC
           Dover sole    204   1316    784   2304             3795     6828
       Longspine THDS      8    411    268    687              430     1150
      Shortspine THDS     11    121    143    275     757      191      529
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     50    327    169    546    1601      534     2524

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     15     30     48     93    1442       28     1873

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     34     34               30      118

              Lingcod      3      4     10     17     163                79

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      3      3     575      845     1770
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     31     38     71     130       48      146
      Canary rockfish      1      1      2      4      30        4       31

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                2        9
          POP (V&C&E)     14     37      _     51               46      188
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     38     24      1     63    2007      968     1612
 Near-shore RF, North      _      4      2      6     161       25       58
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      1      1      2      4     928       15      179
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      8     33      5     46    1150       61      171
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     11     11      21        4       16
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     82     82     929       74      311
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     22     22               22       57
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      3      3      23        5       27
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      3      3     194        6       19
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    134    134     497       63      236
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                         7

      Pacific Whiting      _      4    131    135              617    73474

      *Estimates Thru  30APR         30APR

       HARD DATA THRU  MAR02  APR02  FEB02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-MAY-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.