PacFIN 18-JUL-02 08:21      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 JUN THRU DEC
           Dover sole    269   1665   1327   3261             5148     6829
       Longspine THDS      8    501    438    947              696     1150
      Shortspine THDS     14    155    201    370     757      293      529
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     65    469    290    824    1601     1258     2525

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    102    192    104    398    1442       63     1874

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     58     58               50      116

              Lingcod      9     19     25     53     163       27       79

       Widow Rockfish      6      2      6     14     575     1036     1770
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     45     54    103     130       83      146
      Canary rockfish      2      6      5     13      30       14       31

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                4        9
          POP (V&C&E)     23     71      _     94               92      188
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    163     65      4    232    2007     1266     1612
 Near-shore RF, North      _      6      8     14     161       41       58
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      9      5      6     20     928       34      179
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     21     47     11     79    1150      103      171
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     18     18      21        9       16
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    134    134     929      142      312
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     32     32               29       57
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      5      5      23       10       28
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      9      9     194        8       19
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    180    180     497       99      237
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     34     34                         7

      Pacific Whiting   4501   6712   1405  12618            14697    73474

      *Estimates Thru  30JUN         30JUN

       HARD DATA THRU  MAY02  JUN02  APR02

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