PacFIN 16-AUG-02 15:16 Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report Open Access Best Estimates* of 2002 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons 2002 2001 TOTALS Wash Ore Calif Total OY THRU JUL THRU DEC Dover sole 1 5 _ 6 17 21 Longspine THDS _ _ 2 2 10 14 Shortspine THDS 4 _ 2 6 2 8 10 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) _ 6 _ 6 19 25 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M) 30 27 135 192 338 152 374 Sablefish Conception _ _ 23 23 14 25 Lingcod 6 20 15 41 38 42 77 Widow Rockfish 4 _ _ 4 21 15 23 Darkblotched RCKFSH 1 1 _ 2 5 Canary rockfish 1 1 _ 2 5 6 7 Yelloweye (V&C&E&M) _ _ _ _ 2 3 POP (V&C&E) _ _ _ _ 56 56 Yellowtail (V&C&E) 80 9 _ 89 2 99 151 Near-shore RF, North _ 91 36 127 163 148 221 Shelf rockfish, Nor. 2 1 _ 3 30 12 17 Slope rockfish, Nor. 9 _ _ 9 10 25 33 (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH _ _ _ _ Bocaccio (MT&CP) _ _ 2 2 16 4 7 Chilipepper (MT&CP) _ _ 4 4 739 21 27 Splitnose RF (MT&CP) _ _ _ _ 1 Near-shore RF, South _ _ 114 114 107 68 149 Shelf rockfish, So. _ _ 10 10 320 7 14 Slope rockfish, So. _ _ 52 52 142 11 22 (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH _ _ 1 1 4 7 Pacific Whiting _ _ _ _ *Estimates Thru 31JUL 31JUL HARD DATA THRU MAY02 JUL02 MAY02 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-AUG-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.