PacFIN 17-OCT-01 12:09      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    690   3680   2369   6739    7293     6843     8755
       Longspine THDS     14    580    548   1142    2043     1218     1598
      Shortspine THDS     42    227    227    496     546      535      693
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    265   1439    713   2417    2534     1829     2564

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    488    791    616   1895    2817     2342     2702

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    114    114     212       88      122

              Lingcod     25     61     44    130     251      133      144

       Widow Rockfish    193    715    207   1115    1699     2433     3788
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      9     62     50    121     106      174      219
      Canary rockfish      8     19     12     39      35       48       56

          POP (V&C&E)     50    131      _    181     255       91      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    605    939     36   1580    2066     2007     2797
 Near-shore RF, North      _    168    100    268     402      147      184
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     41     37     20     98     774       95      109
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     56    115     24    195     975      309      398
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               35       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     22     22      48       16       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    255    255    1808      294      413
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     42     42     387       48       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     88     88     106      114      169
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     23     23     285       60       74
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    205    205     529      124      205
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      5      5                8       12

      Pacific Whiting  17910  53330   2306  73546   68418    85816    85828

      *Estimates Thru  30SEP  30SEP  30SEP

       HARD DATA THRU  AUG01  SEP01  JUL01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-OCT-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.