PacFIN 20-DEC-02 08:53 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 NOV THRU DEC Dover sole 16 6 5 27 21 21 Longspine THDS _ _ 4 4 13 13 Shortspine THDS 5 _ 9 14 2 10 10 TWL Sable (V&C&E&M) 12 8 1 21 25 25 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M) 43 51 228 322 338 356 375 Sablefish Conception _ _ 33 33 20 22 Lingcod 16 34 35 85 38 77 77 Widow Rockfish 12 _ _ 12 21 23 23 Darkblotched RCKFSH 1 1 1 3 5 Canary rockfish 3 1 _ 4 5 7 7 Yelloweye (V&C&E&M) _ _ _ _ 3 3 POP (V&C&E) _ _ _ _ 56 56 Yellowtail (V&C&E) 244 9 _ 253 2 151 151 Near-shore RF, North _ 139 79 218 163 222 222 Shelf rockfish, Nor. 8 2 2 12 30 17 17 Slope rockfish, Nor. 18 _ _ 18 10 33 33 (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH _ _ _ _ Bocaccio (MT&CP) _ _ 3 3 16 7 7 Chilipepper (MT&CP) _ _ 4 4 739 27 27 Splitnose RF (MT&CP) _ _ _ _ 1 1 Near-shore RF, South _ _ 107 107 107 142 149 Shelf rockfish, So. _ _ 10 10 320 14 14 Slope rockfish, So. _ _ 52 52 142 20 22 (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH _ _ 2 2 6 7 Pacific Whiting _ _ _ _ *Estimates Thru 30NOV 30NOV HARD DATA THRU OCT02 NOV02 SEP02 Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 19-DEC-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.