PacFIN 31-JUL-01 15:25      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 JUL THRU DEC
           Dover sole    603   3111   2108   5822    7293     5656     8739
       Longspine THDS     12    403    424    839    2043     1062     1608
      Shortspine THDS     27    157    181    365     546      436      682
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    180    808    709   1697    2534     1376     2560

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     67     31    189    287    2817      159     2701

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     85     85     212       66      122

              Lingcod     15     31     58    104     251      101      144

       Widow Rockfish    164    695    236   1095    1699     1629     3789
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     39     40     84     106      141      239
      Canary rockfish      3     10     11     24      35       32       56

          POP (V&C&E)     29     81      1    111     255       69      121
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    519    806     41   1366    2066     1204     2788
 Near-shore RF, North      _    105     91    196     402       84      182
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     26     21     29     76     774       73      108
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     27     81     24    132     975      190      367
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               24       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     16     16      48       11       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    291    291    1808      197      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     33     33     387       36       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     50     50     106       62      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     12     12     285       46       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    116    116     529       73      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1                6       12

      Pacific Whiting   7242  14239   3473  24954   68418    36349    85828

      *Estimates Thru  21JUL  21JUL  21JUL

       HARD DATA THRU   5/01   6/01   4/01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 30-JUL-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.