PacFIN 16-OCT-02 08:16 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 SEP THRU DEC Dover sole 5 6 8 19 20 21 Longspine THDS _ _ 5 5 12 14 Shortspine THDS 4 _ 3 7 2 8 10 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 2 8 _ 10 25 25 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M) 43 36 167 246 338 261 374 Sablefish Conception _ _ 28 28 20 25 Lingcod 10 29 27 66 38 68 77 Widow Rockfish 10 _ _ 10 21 23 23 Darkblotched RCKFSH 1 1 _ 2 5 Canary rockfish 2 1 _ 3 5 7 7 Yelloweye (V&C&E&M) _ _ _ _ 3 3 POP (V&C&E) _ _ _ _ 56 56 Yellowtail (V&C&E) 181 9 _ 190 2 133 151 Near-shore RF, North _ 118 65 183 163 205 222 Shelf rockfish, Nor. 7 2 1 10 30 17 17 Slope rockfish, Nor. 13 _ _ 13 10 30 33 (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH _ _ _ _ Bocaccio (MT&CP) _ _ 3 3 16 6 7 Chilipepper (MT&CP) _ _ 4 4 739 27 27 Splitnose RF (MT&CP) _ _ _ _ 1 Near-shore RF, South _ _ 115 115 107 110 149 Shelf rockfish, So. _ _ 10 10 320 13 14 Slope rockfish, So. _ _ 51 51 142 14 22 (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH _ _ 2 2 5 7 Pacific Whiting _ _ _ _ *Estimates Thru 30SEP 30SEP HARD DATA THRU AUG02 SEP02 JUL02 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-OCT-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.