PacFIN 21-SEP-01 16:29      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    674   3531   2401   6606    7293     6828     8739
       Longspine THDS     12    521    528   1061    2043     1217     1597
      Shortspine THDS     39    201    210    450     546      535      693
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    236   1262    760   2258    2534     1827     2561

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    318    519    526   1363    2817     2341     2699

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    101    101     212       88      122

              Lingcod     24     53     46    123     251      132      144

       Widow Rockfish    165    714    208   1087    1699     2434     3790
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     63     46    115     106      174      218
      Canary rockfish     10     16     14     40      35       48       56

          POP (V&C&E)     47    112      _    159     255       91      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    587    924     34   1545    2066     2007     2797
 Near-shore RF, North      _    152    101    253     402      146      182
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     40     31     20     91     774       95      109
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     44    100     22    166     975      309      398
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               35       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     23     23      48       16       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    278    278    1808      294      403
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     37     37     387       47       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     79     79     106      113      165
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     19     19     285       58       72
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    159    159     529      123      201
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                9       12

      Pacific Whiting  16184  50413   2303  68900   68418    85816    85828

      *Estimates Thru  15SEP  15SEP  15SEP

       HARD DATA THRU   7/01   8/01   6/01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 18-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.