PacFIN 16-OCT-02 08:15      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 SEP THRU DEC
           Dover sole    362   2002   2276   4640             6756     6829
       Longspine THDS      8    542    733   1283             1151     1173
      Shortspine THDS     25    175    318    518     757      484      506
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     96    628    470   1194    1601     2467     2525

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    393    476    183   1052    1442     1452     1874

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     91     91               87      116

              Lingcod     21     37     39     97     163       69       79

       Widow Rockfish     28      5     10     43     575     1120     1771
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     49     44     97     130      151      160
      Canary rockfish     15     12     10     37      30       31       31

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                9        9
          POP (V&C&E)     36     94      1    131              184      188
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    296    135     10    441    2007     1447     1613
 Near-shore RF, North      _     11     23     34     161       55       58
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     26      9     15     50     928       75      180
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     37     55     12    104    1150      160      166
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     18     18      21       15       16
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    144    144     929      209      298
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     40     40               70       88
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     11     11      23       21       28
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     11     11     194       17       19
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    301    301     497      171      227
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     15     15                4        6

      Pacific Whiting  10604  32305   2776  45685            73421    73474

      *Estimates Thru  30SEP         30SEP

       HARD DATA THRU  AUG02  SEP02  JUL02

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