PacFIN 14-SEP-01 17:19      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    659   3482   2645   6786    7293     6157     8739
       Longspine THDS     12    497    552   1061    2043     1122     1597
      Shortspine THDS     34    195    216    445     546      488      693
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    215   1218    899   2332    2534     1543     2561

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    236    333    513   1082    2817     2162     2699

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    118    118     212       79      122

              Lingcod     22     49     76    147     251      119      144

       Widow Rockfish    165    714    223   1102    1699     1879     3790
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     53     40     98     106      151      218
      Canary rockfish     10     16     18     44      35       40       56

          POP (V&C&E)     41    109      _    150     255       79      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    583    921     41   1545    2066     1494     2797
 Near-shore RF, North      _    150    117    267     402      109      182
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     38     30     29     97     774       84      109
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     40     96     24    160     975      267      398
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               33       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      48       14       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    299    299    1808      243      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     42     42     387       41       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     73     73     106       90      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     17     17     285       52       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    159    159     529       98      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                8       12

      Pacific Whiting  16055  50384   2406  68845   68418    69580    85828

      *Estimates Thru  31AUG  31AUG  31AUG

       HARD DATA THRU   7/01   8/01   5/01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 14-SEP-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.