PacFIN 19-DEC-01 15:02 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 NOV THRU DEC Dover sole 3 12 1 16 39 39 Longspine THDS _ _ 14 14 17 19 Shortspine THDS 5 _ 5 10 2 26 27 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 3 17 _ 20 41 41 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M) 55 57 230 342 535 317 386 Sablefish Conception _ _ 25 25 23 26 Lingcod 10 34 25 69 48 59 59 Widow Rockfish 8 1 12 21 68 23 24 Darkblotched RCKFSH _ _ _ _ 3 1 1 Canary rockfish 3 3 1 7 5 12 12 POP (V&C&E) _ _ _ _ Yellowtail (V&C&E) 97 34 1 132 256 107 109 Near-shore RF, North _ 138 82 220 181 142 151 Shelf rockfish, Nor. 12 4 3 19 34 12 12 Slope rockfish, Nor. 25 1 1 27 7 18 19 (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH 2 _ _ 2 24 24 Bocaccio (MT&CP) _ _ 6 6 19 5 6 Chilipepper (MT&CP) _ _ 26 26 879 43 51 Splitnose RF (MT&CP) _ _ _ _ 2 2 Near-shore RF, South _ _ 115 115 74 120 139 Shelf rockfish, So. _ _ 11 11 176 23 26 Slope rockfish, So. _ _ 18 18 164 8 9 (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH _ _ 4 4 9 10 Pacific Whiting _ _ _ _ 5722 5722 *Estimates Thru 30NOV 30NOV HARD DATA THRU OCT01 NOV01 SEP01 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 19-DEC-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.