PacFIN 16-MAY-01 10:33      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    452   2286   1479   4217    7293     3815     8739
       Longspine THDS      8    222    305    535    2043      809     1608
      Shortspine THDS     14     87    114    215     546      313      682
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     38    300    318    656    2534      575     2560

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      9     11    130    150    2817       53     2701

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     32     32     212       39      122

              Lingcod      _      _      _      _     251        1      144

       Widow Rockfish    122    558    288    968    1699      867     3792
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     22     11     35     106       55      239
      Canary rockfish      _      3      3      6      35        4       56

          POP (V&C&E)     12     35      _     47     255       13      121
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    353    611     16    980    2066      115     2785
 Near-shore RF, North      _     51     26     77     402       18      182
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      4      7      2     13     774       21      110
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     10     49     11     70     975       63      365
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _               10       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      7      7      48        4       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    140    140    1808      107      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     42     42     387       24       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     26     26     106       16      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      4      4     285        7       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     78     78     529       32      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                3       12

      Pacific Whiting      8     18    518    544   68418      412    85828

      *Estimates Thru  30APR  30APR  30APR

       HARD DATA THRU  12/00   4/01   1/01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-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.