PacFIN 09-NOV-01 11:53      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 NOV THRU DEC
           Dover sole    704   3704   2371   6779    7293     8113     8755
       Longspine THDS     15    596    550   1161    2043     1466     1598
      Shortspine THDS     46    234    228    508     546      639      693
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    290   1491    716   2497    2534     2375     2564

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    640   1086    715   2441    2817     2600     2702

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    118    118     212      110      122

              Lingcod     27     68     50    145     251      144      144

       Widow Rockfish    193    716    225   1134    1699     3496     3788
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      9     63     55    127     106      210      219
      Canary rockfish      8     19     11     38      35       55       56

          POP (V&C&E)     51    134      _    185     255      117      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    634    944     39   1617    2066     2635     2797
 Near-shore RF, North      _    169    108    277     402      174      184
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     42     38     20    100     774      107      109
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     59    118     25    202     975      376      398
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               35       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     23     23      48       22       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    283    283    1808      373      413
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     43     43     387       57       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     96     96     106      148      169
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     24     24     285       68       74
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    215    215     529      185      205
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      5      5               11       12

      Pacific Whiting  17910  53330   2306  73546   68418    85823    85828

      *Estimates Thru  03NOV  31OCT  03NOV

       HARD DATA THRU  AUG01  SEP01  JUL01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 05-NOV-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.