PacFIN 16-AUG-01 16:10      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 AUG THRU DEC
           Dover sole    625   3335   2323   6283    7293     6157     8739
       Longspine THDS     14    461    481    956    2043     1133     1608
      Shortspine THDS     27    180    190    397     546      476      682
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    183   1036    781   2000    2534     1543     2560

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     78     53    248    379    2817     2163     2701

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    104    104     212       79      122

              Lingcod     15     40     61    116     251      119      144

       Widow Rockfish    165    778    220   1163    1699     1880     3789
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     51     41     96     106      155      239
      Canary rockfish      6     17     15     38      35       40       56

          POP (V&C&E)     31     96      _    127     255       79      121
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    547    886     41   1474    2066     1494     2788
 Near-shore RF, North      _    128     95    223     402      109      182
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     27     26     27     80     774       84      108
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     31     87     18    136     975      254      367
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               33       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     19     19      48       14       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    275    275    1808      243      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     38     38     387       41       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     63     63     106       90      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     13     13     285       52       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    137    137     529       98      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                8       12

      Pacific Whiting  12898  31189   2406  46493   68418    69580    85828

      *Estimates Thru  11AUG  11AUG  11AUG

       HARD DATA THRU   6/01   7/01   5/01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 16-AUG-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.