PacFIN 26-JUN-02 07:59      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 MAY THRU DEC
           Dover sole    260   1556   1099   2915             4492     6829
       Longspine THDS      8    478    363    849              577     1150
      Shortspine THDS     15    145    182    342     757      252      529
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     64    393    241    698    1601      866     2525

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     84    164     66    314    1442       42     1874

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     42     42               37      116

              Lingcod      7     13     20     40     163       11       79

       Widow Rockfish      4      1      4      9     575      937     1770
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     41     50     95     130       63      146
      Canary rockfish      1      4      4      9      30        7       31

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                2        9
          POP (V&C&E)     21     58      _     79               63      188
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    151     43      2    196    2007     1070     1612
 Near-shore RF, North      _      5      6     11     161       32       58
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     10      4      3     17     928       21      179
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     15     43      6     64    1150       83      171
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      1      _      _      1                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     19     19      21        6       16
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    112    112     929      119      312
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     26     26               26       57
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      4      4      23        7       28
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      6      6     194        7       19
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    137    137     497       84      237
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     26     26                         7

      Pacific Whiting      _     43    323    366             2000    73474

      *Estimates Thru  31MAY         31MAY

       HARD DATA THRU  APR02  MAY02  MAR02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 14-JUN-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.