PacFIN 20-DEC-02 08:52      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 NOV THRU DEC
           Dover sole    431   2634   3053   6118             6804     6832
       Longspine THDS      8    820   1023   1851             1173     1175
      Shortspine THDS     28    255    443    726     757      503      506
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    119    755    605   1479    1601     2528     2528

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    436    564    273   1273    1442     1866     1872

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    122    122              112      119

              Lingcod     25     47     42    114     163       80       80

       Widow Rockfish     29    118     60    207     575     1572     1771
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     51     46    101     130      160      161
      Canary rockfish     15     16     11     42      30       31       31

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                9        9
          POP (V&C&E)     38    103      1    142              188      188
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    347    260     11    618    2007     1569     1613
 Near-shore RF, North      _     12     25     37     161       58       58
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     25     10     15     50     928      132      180
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     44     62     18    124    1150      166      166
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     19     19      21       16       16
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    149    149     929      279      298
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     50     50               83       88
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     11     11      23       27       28
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     14     14     194       17       19
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    358    358     497      204      228
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     15     15                6        6

      Pacific Whiting  10630  32305   2773  45708            73474    73474

      *Estimates Thru  30NOV         30NOV

       HARD DATA THRU  OCT02  NOV02  SEP02

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