PacFIN 19-NOV-02 16:05      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 OCT THRU DEC
           Dover sole    404   2430   2661   5495             6793     6829
       Longspine THDS      8    710    873   1591             1170     1173
      Shortspine THDS     26    222    383    631     757      500      506
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    109    712    532   1353    1601     2525     2525

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    406    564    238   1208    1442     1850     1874

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    116    116              100      116

              Lingcod     24     45     41    110     163       79       79

       Widow Rockfish     28      6     10     44     575     1124     1771
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     49     43     96     130      158      160
      Canary rockfish     15     15     11     41      30       31       31

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                9        9
          POP (V&C&E)     38    100      1    139              188      188
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    306    153     11    470    2007     1459     1613
 Near-shore RF, North      _     12     24     36     161       57       58
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     24     10     15     49     928       76      180
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     44     60     16    120    1150      166      166
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     18     18      21       16       16
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    145    145     929      254      298
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     45     45               74       88
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     11     11      23       25       28
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     12     12     194       17       19
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    345    345     497      191      227
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     15     15                6        6

      Pacific Whiting  10630  32305   2776  45711            73468    73474

      *Estimates Thru  31OCT         31OCT

       HARD DATA THRU  SEP02  OCT02  AUG02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 19-NOV-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.