PacFIN 29-MAY-01 17:00      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    539   2368   1699   4606    7293     4489     8739
       Longspine THDS      7    234    347    588    2043      915     1608
      Shortspine THDS     16     95    133    244     546      366      682
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     54    342    397    793    2534      864     2560

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     13     13    147    173    2817       74     2701

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     39     39     212       47      122

              Lingcod      2      4      5     11     251       30      144

       Widow Rockfish    137    583    311   1031    1699     1117     3789
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     22     13     37     106       91      239
      Canary rockfish      _      3      3      6      35       13       56

          POP (V&C&E)     13     37      _     50     255       35      121
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    399    612     19   1030    2066      462     2788
 Near-shore RF, North      _     52     33     85     402       37      182
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      6      8      6     20     774       45      108
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     11     54     18     83     975      120      367
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _               13       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      9      9      48        6       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    195    195    1808      121      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     45     45     387       30       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     33     33     106       26      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      7      7     285       22       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     93     93     529       40      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                3       12

      Pacific Whiting      8     18   1760   1786   68418     3211    85828

      *Estimates Thru  19MAY  19MAY  19MAY

       HARD DATA THRU   1/01   4/01   1/01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 29-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.