PacFIN 04-MAY-01 14:28      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Total Fleet Best Estimates* of 2001 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial
  Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons

                                                     2001    2000 TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     OY  THRU APR THRU DEC
           Dover sole    444   2160   1455   4059    7293     3815     8731
       Longspine THDS      8    208    295    511    2043      807     1602
      Shortspine THDS     14     85    111    210     546      314      686
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     38    273    306    617    2534      582     2638

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      9     11    137    157    2817       54     2697

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     22     22     212       39      122

              Lingcod      _      _      _      _     251        1      144

       Widow Rockfish    120    507    265    892    1699      867     3779
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     16      7     25     106       52      213
      Canary rockfish      _      2      3      5      35        4       56

          POP (V&C&E)     12     34      _     46     255       13      135
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    346    399     11    756    2066      117     2870
 Near-shore RF, North      _     30     19     49     402       18      183
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      4      5      2     11     774       21      111
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     10     47     11     68     975       69      398
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _               10       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      9      9      48        4       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    150    150    1808      107      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     41     41     387       24       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     22     22     106       16      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      4      4     285        7       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     71     71     529       32      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                3       12

      Pacific Whiting      8     10    452    470   68418      412    85828

      *Estimates Thru  28APR  28APR  28APR

       HARD DATA THRU  12/00   3/01  12/00

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 01-MAY-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.