PacFIN 07-SEP-01 14:23      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 SEP THRU DEC
           Dover sole    644   3422   2644   6710    7293     6828     8739
       Longspine THDS     14    481    553   1048    2043     1229     1608
      Shortspine THDS     32    190    213    435     546      523      682
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    208   1149    901   2258    2534     1828     2560

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    253     87    483    823    2817     2341     2701

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    113    113     212       88      122

              Lingcod     19     46     75    140     251      132      144

       Widow Rockfish    165    729    223   1117    1699     2434     3789
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     51     40     96     106      181      239
      Canary rockfish      6     17     18     41      35       48       56

          POP (V&C&E)     37    100      _    137     255       91      121
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    564    893     41   1498    2066     2007     2788
 Near-shore RF, North      _    130    113    243     402      146      182
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     36     29     29     94     774       94      108
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     36     91     24    151     975      292      367
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               35       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      48       16       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    298    298    1808      294      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     42     42     387       47       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     71     71     106      113      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     16     16     285       58       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    159    159     529      123      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                9       12

      Pacific Whiting  15649  53614   2406  71669   68418    85816    85828

      *Estimates Thru  01SEP  31AUG  01SEP

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

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 05-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.