PacFIN 01-OCT-01 08:31      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    691   3562   2437   6690    7293     6843     8755
       Longspine THDS     12    527    539   1078    2043     1218     1598
      Shortspine THDS     42    204    214    460     546      535      693
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    256   1305    772   2333    2534     1829     2564

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    356    625    571   1552    2817     2342     2702

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    111    111     212       88      122

              Lingcod     25     55     48    128     251      133      144

       Widow Rockfish    168    714    208   1090    1699     2433     3788
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      8     57     46    111     106      174      219
      Canary rockfish     10     16     14     40      35       48       56

          POP (V&C&E)     49    115      _    164     255       91      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    589    925     34   1548    2066     2007     2797
 Near-shore RF, North      _    152    102    254     402      147      184
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     41     32     21     94     774       95      109
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     46    103     22    171     975      309      398
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               35       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     25     25      48       16       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    289    289    1808      294      413
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     38     38     387       48       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     80     80     106      114      169
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     20     20     285       60       74
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    170    170     529      124      205
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                8       12

      Pacific Whiting  17503  50503   2303  70309   68418    85816    85828

      *Estimates Thru  22SEP  22SEP  22SEP

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

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 28-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.