PacFIN 14-SEP-01 17:16      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    668   3487   2706   6861    7293     6828     8739
       Longspine THDS     12    498    574   1084    2043     1217     1597
      Shortspine THDS     37    195    224    456     546      535      693
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    228   1227    928   2383    2534     1827     2561

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    269    394    556   1219    2817     2341     2699

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    118    118     212       88      122

              Lingcod     23     49     78    150     251      132      144

       Widow Rockfish    165    714    223   1102    1699     2434     3790
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     53     40     99     106      174      218
      Canary rockfish     10     16     18     44      35       48       56

          POP (V&C&E)     45    109      _    154     255       91      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    585    921     41   1547    2066     2007     2797
 Near-shore RF, North      _    150    117    267     402      146      182
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     40     30     29     99     774       95      109
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     42     96     25    163     975      309      398
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               35       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      48       16       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    302    302    1808      294      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     43     43     387       47       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     73     73     106      113      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     17     17     285       58       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    161    161     529      123      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                9       12

      Pacific Whiting  16184  50384   2406  68974   68418    85816    85828

      *Estimates Thru  08SEP  08SEP  08SEP

       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.