PacFIN 13-SEP-02 19:03      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 AUG THRU DEC
           Dover sole    363   1984   2000   4347             6261     6829
       Longspine THDS      8    530    656   1194              956     1173
      Shortspine THDS     25    170    278    473     757      398      506
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     95    615    411   1121    1601     2054     2525

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    285    357    121    763    1442      747     1874

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    108    108               70      116

              Lingcod     20     35     38     93     163       54       79

       Widow Rockfish     35      5     10     50     575     1103     1771
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     49     41     95     130      117      160
      Canary rockfish      9     12      9     30      30       27       31

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                7        9
          POP (V&C&E)     37     93      _    130              146      188
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    370    129     10    509    2007     1422     1613
 Near-shore RF, North      _      9     17     26     161       51       58
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     27      9     12     48     928       61      180
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     38     53     13    104    1150      134      166
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     17     17      21       12       16
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    144    144     929      177      298
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     35     35               61       88
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      9      9      23       16       28
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     11     11     194       13       19
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    275    275     497      145      227
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     16     16                1        6

      Pacific Whiting  10618  32305   3284  46207            67766    73474

      *Estimates Thru  31AUG         31AUG

       HARD DATA THRU  JUL02  AUG02  JUN02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 13-SEP-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.