PacFIN 14-MAY-01 09:25      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 MAY THRU DEC
           Dover sole    470   2343   1560   4373    7293     4489     8739
       Longspine THDS      8    222    310    540    2043      915     1608
      Shortspine THDS     14     93    116    223     546      366      682
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     39    300    334    673    2534      864     2560

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      9     15    139    163    2817       74     2701

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     22     22     212       47      122

              Lingcod      _      _      _      _     251       30      144

       Widow Rockfish    126    577    300   1003    1699     1120     3792
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     16      7     25     106       91      239
      Canary rockfish      _      2      3      5      35       13       56

          POP (V&C&E)     12     35      _     47     255       35      121
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    370    417     18    805    2066      459     2785
 Near-shore RF, North      _     31     25     56     402       37      182
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      4      6      2     12     774       45      110
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     10     50     13     73     975      120      365
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _               13       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      9      9      48        6       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    162    162    1808      121      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     45     45     387       30       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     22     22     106       26      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      4      4     285       22       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     80     80     529       40      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                3       12

      Pacific Whiting      8     10    732    750   68418     3211    85828

      *Estimates Thru  05MAY  05MAY  05MAY

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

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 10-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.