PacFIN 19-DEC-01 15:00      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    710   3719   2358   6787    7293     8113     8755
       Longspine THDS     15    613    528   1156    2043     1466     1598
      Shortspine THDS     45    227    250    522     546      639      693
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    279   1531    744   2554    2534     2372     2561

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    604    988    528   2120    2817     2604     2707

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    116    116     212      110      122

              Lingcod     25     68     53    146     251      144      144

       Widow Rockfish    271    997    296   1564    1699     3496     3788
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      8     64     66    138     106      210      219
      Canary rockfish     10     19      9     38      35       55       56

          POP (V&C&E)     52    136      _    188     255      117      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    700    979     41   1720    2066     2635     2797
 Near-shore RF, North      _    176    103    279     402      174      184
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     49     97     18    164     774      107      109
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     59    122     21    202     975      376      398
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      2      _      1      3               35       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      48       22       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    286    286    1808      373      413
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     45     45     387       57       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    135    135     106      148      169
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     27     27     285       68       74
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    216    216     529      185      205
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      7      7               11       12

      Pacific Whiting  17793  53376   2306  73475   68418    85839    85843

      *Estimates Thru  30NOV  30NOV  30NOV

       HARD DATA THRU  OCT01  NOV01  SEP01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 19-DEC-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.