PacFIN 24-AUG-01 11:08      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    633   3366   2491   6490    7293     6157     8739
       Longspine THDS     14    466    520   1000    2043     1133     1608
      Shortspine THDS     28    183    201    412     546      476      682
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    198   1076    842   2116    2534     1543     2560

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     90     56    307    453    2817     2163     2701

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    107    107     212       79      122

              Lingcod     17     43     67    127     251      119      144

       Widow Rockfish    165    810    220   1195    1699     1880     3789
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     51     39     94     106      155      239
      Canary rockfish      6     17     16     39      35       40       56

          POP (V&C&E)     35     97      _    132     255       79      121
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    559    888     41   1488    2066     1494     2788
 Near-shore RF, North      _    128    103    231     402      109      182
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     32     28     27     87     774       84      108
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     31     88     21    140     975      254      367
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               33       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     20     20      48       14       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    288    288    1808      243      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     39     39     387       41       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     66     66     106       90      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     15     15     285       52       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    142    142     529       98      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                8       12

      Pacific Whiting  14895  38247   2406  55548   68418    69580    85828

      *Estimates Thru  18AUG  18AUG  18AUG

       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.