PacFIN 25-JAN-02 16:01      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Total Fleet Best Estimates* of 2002 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial
  Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons

                                                     2002    2001 TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     OY  THRU JAN THRU DEC
           Dover sole     32     54     53    139    7000      633     6816
       Longspine THDS      _      2     17     19    2037       74     1160
      Shortspine THDS      1      2     11     14     759       44      528
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)      6      3      6     15    1601      108     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      _      _      8      8    1442       16     2149

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     11     11     211        8      132

              Lingcod      _      _      _      _     201               151

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      1      1     596      171     1710
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2      3      _      5     168       10      142
      Canary rockfish      _      _      _      _      35        1       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4                12
          POP (V&C&E)      4      _      _      4     294       10      191
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)      1      _      _      1    2225      161     1761
 Near-shore RF, North      _      _      _      _     324        8      280
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      _      _      _      _     958        1      196
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      2      1      1      4    1160       17      202
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      1      1      37        1       22
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      4      4    1668       19      288
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _      1      1     387        5       47
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      3      3     130        8      155
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      _      _     514        2       28
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     10     10     639       14      225
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                        10

      Pacific Whiting      _      3      _      3                     73474

      *Estimates Thru  19JAN  19JAN  19JAN

       HARD DATA THRU  NOV01  DEC01  OCT01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 22-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 1442 metric tons and
  the open-access sablefish harvest guideline is 338 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.