PacFIN 04-SEP-01 08:32      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   3417   2556   6606    7293     6157     8739
       Longspine THDS     14    481    534   1029    2043     1133     1608
      Shortspine THDS     30    189    207    426     546      476      682
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    201   1144    870   2215    2534     1543     2560

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    169     86    397    652    2817     2163     2701

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    109    109     212       79      122

              Lingcod     18     46     72    136     251      119      144

       Widow Rockfish    165    868    222   1255    1699     1880     3789
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     51     40     95     106      155      239
      Canary rockfish      6     17     17     40      35       40       56

          POP (V&C&E)     35    100      _    135     255       79      121
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    563    897     41   1501    2066     1494     2788
 Near-shore RF, North      _    130    109    239     402      109      182
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     34     29     28     91     774       84      108
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     33     91     23    147     975      254      367
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               33       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      48       14       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    290    290    1808      243      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     40     40     387       41       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     68     68     106       90      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     15     15     285       52       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    146    146     529       98      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                8       12

      Pacific Whiting  15649  52979   2406  71034   68418    69580    85828

      *Estimates Thru  25AUG  25AUG  25AUG

       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.