PacFIN 17-JAN-02 14:56      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 DEC THRU DEC
           Dover sole    711   3733   2382   6826    7293     8755     8755
       Longspine THDS     15    613    531   1159    2043     1598     1598
      Shortspine THDS     45    227    256    528     546      693      693
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    279   1531    744   2554    2534     2561     2561

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    592    989    602   2183    2817     2707     2707

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    133    133     212      122      122

              Lingcod     25     68     58    151     251      144      144

       Widow Rockfish    334   1137    311   1782    1699     3788     3788
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      8     64     69    141     106      219      219
      Canary rockfish     10     19      9     38      35       56       56

          POP (V&C&E)     54    136      _    190     255      124      124
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    758    993     41   1792    2066     2797     2797
 Near-shore RF, North      _    177    103    280     402      184      184
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     49    139     19    207     774      109      109
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     61    122     20    203     975      398      398
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               35       35

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     22     22      48       25       25
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    312    312    1808      413      413
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     51     51     387       62       62
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    158    158     106      169      169
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     29     29     285       74       74
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    247    247     529      205      205
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     10     10               12       12

      Pacific Whiting  17793  53376   2306  73475   68418    85843    85843

      *Estimates Thru  31DEC  31DEC  31DEC

       HARD DATA THRU  NOV01  DEC01  OCT01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-JAN-2002.

  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.