PacFIN 28-MAR-01 12:20 Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report Open Access Best Estimates* of 2001 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons 2001 2000 TOTALS Wash Ore Calif Total OY THRU FEB THRU DEC Dover sole _ _ _ _ 4 84 Longspine THDS _ _ _ _ 3 22 Shortspine THDS _ _ _ _ 2 4 31 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) _ _ _ _ 1 50 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M) _ 2 42 44 535 10 473 Sablefish Conception _ _ 4 4 6 37 Lingcod _ _ _ _ 48 59 Widow Rockfish _ _ 3 3 68 1 29 Darkblotched RCKFSH _ _ _ _ 3 1 Canary rockfish _ _ 1 1 5 12 POP (V&C&E) _ _ _ _ Yellowtail (V&C&E) _ _ _ _ 256 98 Near-shore RF, North _ 9 3 12 181 3 150 Shelf rockfish, Nor. _ _ _ _ 34 12 Slope rockfish, Nor. _ _ _ _ 7 21 (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH _ _ _ _ 24 Bocaccio (MT&CP) _ _ 2 2 19 5 Chilipepper (MT&CP) _ _ 33 33 879 15 57 Splitnose RF (MT&CP) _ _ _ _ Near-shore RF, South _ _ 18 18 74 5 136 Shelf rockfish, So. _ _ 2 2 176 2 26 Slope rockfish, So. _ _ 6 6 164 1 8 (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH _ _ _ _ 11 Pacific Whiting _ _ _ _ *Estimates Thru 17FEB 28FEB HARD DATA THRU 12/00 2/01 11/00 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 23-MAR-2001. 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 2282 metric tons and the open-access sablefish harvest guideline is 535 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.