PacFIN 02-NOV-01 13:44      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    704   3703   2371   6778    7293     7421     8755
       Longspine THDS     15    596    550   1161    2043     1296     1598
      Shortspine THDS     46    234    228    508     546      570      693
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    291   1491    716   2498    2534     2132     2564

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    625   1039    680   2344    2817     2463     2702

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    118    118     212       99      122

              Lingcod     27     67     48    142     251      144      144

       Widow Rockfish    193    775    208   1176    1699     2956     3788
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      9     63     55    127     106      193      219
      Canary rockfish      8     19     11     38      35       53       56

          POP (V&C&E)     52    134      _    186     255      113      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    611    944     37   1592    2066     2342     2797
 Near-shore RF, North      _    169    104    273     402      164      184
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     41     38     20     99     774      103      109
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     60    118     25    203     975      352      398
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               35       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     23     23      48       19       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    265    265    1808      330      413
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     42     42     387       50       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     94     94     106      131      169
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     23     23     285       63       74
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    209    209     529      149      205
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      5      5               10       12

      Pacific Whiting  17910  53330   2306  73546   68418    85822    85828

      *Estimates Thru  27OCT  27OCT  27OCT

       HARD DATA THRU  AUG01  SEP01  JUL01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 31-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.