PacFIN 16-AUG-02 15:13      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 JUL THRU DEC
           Dover sole    302   1847   1706   3855             5745     6829
       Longspine THDS      8    525    588   1121              838     1173
      Shortspine THDS     18    163    257    438     757      349      506
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     80    585    364   1029    1601     1701     2525

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    153    298    110    561    1442      109     1874

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    112    112               61      116

              Lingcod     14     28     33     75     163       40       79

       Widow Rockfish     11      4      9     24     575     1071     1771
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     47     44     95     130      100      160
      Canary rockfish      2     10      8     20      30       19       31

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                4        9
          POP (V&C&E)     28     86      _    114              125      188
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    235    108      8    351    2007     1365     1613
 Near-shore RF, North      _      7     10     17     161       46       58
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     16      8      8     32     928       43      180
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     28     51     11     90    1150      118      166
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     18     18      21       11       16
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    147    147     929      162      298
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     38     38               55       88
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      7      7      23       12       28
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     11     11     194       10       19
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    246    246     497      123      227
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     13     13                1        6

      Pacific Whiting  10893  32160   3121  46174            44808    73474

      *Estimates Thru  31JUL         31JUL

       HARD DATA THRU  MAY02  JUL02  MAY02

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