PacFIN 12-OCT-01 17:10      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 OCT THRU DEC
           Dover sole    712   3626   2371   6709    7293     7421     8755
       Longspine THDS     14    548    550   1112    2043     1296     1598
      Shortspine THDS     47    215    227    489     546      570      693
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    294   1389    713   2396    2534     2132     2564

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    438    865    635   1938    2817     2463     2702

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    114    114     212       99      122

              Lingcod     27     60     44    131     251      144      144

       Widow Rockfish    174    751    207   1132    1699     2956     3788
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      9     61     50    120     106      193      219
      Canary rockfish     10     16     12     38      35       53       56

          POP (V&C&E)     56    122      _    178     255      113      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    594    930     36   1560    2066     2342     2797
 Near-shore RF, North      _    153    101    254     402      164      184
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     41     36     20     97     774      103      109
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     53    110     24    187     975      352      398
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               35       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     22     22      48       19       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    256    256    1808      330      413
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     42     42     387       50       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     89     89     106      131      169
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     23     23     285       63       74
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    206    206     529      149      205
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      5      5               10       12

      Pacific Whiting  18917  53060   2306  74283   68418    85822    85828

      *Estimates Thru  06OCT  06OCT  06OCT

       HARD DATA THRU   7/1   8/1   7/1

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 12-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.