PacFIN 13-SEP-02 19:04 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 AUG THRU DEC Dover sole 4 5 _ 9 18 21 Longspine THDS _ _ 2 2 10 14 Shortspine THDS 5 _ 3 8 2 8 10 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 2 7 _ 9 23 25 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M) 44 32 145 221 338 209 374 Sablefish Conception _ _ 26 26 16 25 Lingcod 10 25 22 57 38 57 77 Widow Rockfish 7 _ _ 7 21 20 23 Darkblotched RCKFSH 1 1 _ 2 5 Canary rockfish 2 1 _ 3 5 7 7 Yelloweye (V&C&E&M) _ _ _ _ 2 3 POP (V&C&E) _ _ _ _ 56 56 Yellowtail (V&C&E) 140 9 _ 149 2 115 151 Near-shore RF, North _ 105 51 156 163 178 222 Shelf rockfish, Nor. 5 1 1 7 30 15 17 Slope rockfish, Nor. 12 _ _ 12 10 27 33 (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH _ _ _ _ Bocaccio (MT&CP) _ _ 3 3 16 5 7 Chilipepper (MT&CP) _ _ 4 4 739 25 27 Splitnose RF (MT&CP) _ _ _ _ 1 Near-shore RF, South _ _ 140 140 107 88 149 Shelf rockfish, So. _ _ 9 9 320 10 14 Slope rockfish, So. _ _ 53 53 142 12 22 (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH _ _ 2 2 4 7 Pacific Whiting _ _ _ _ *Estimates Thru 31AUG 31AUG HARD DATA THRU JUL02 AUG02 JUN02 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 13-SEP-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.