PacFIN 20-FEB-02 09:54      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     39    234    158    431    7000      633     6842
       Longspine THDS      _     27     43     70    2037       74     1164
      Shortspine THDS      1     12     28     41     759       44      533
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)      7     35     23     65    1601      108     2562

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      _      _     22     22    1442       16     2234

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     21     21     211        8      137

              Lingcod      _      _      2      2     201               155

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      1      1     596      171     1773
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     10      1     13     168       10      143
      Canary rockfish      _      _      _      _      35        1       39

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4                12
          POP (V&C&E)      4      5      _      9     294       10      190
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)      2      6      _      8    2225      161     1789
 Near-shore RF, North      _      3      _      3     324        8      280
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      _      _      _      _     958        1      327
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      2      6      2     10    1160       17      202
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      2      2      37        1       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      9      9    1668       19      332
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _      2      2     387        5       55
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      6      6     130        7      171
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      2      2     514        2       32
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     30     30     639       14      251
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                        13

      Pacific Whiting      _      2      _      2                     73474

      *Estimates Thru  31JAN  31JAN  31JAN

       HARD DATA THRU  DEC01  JAN02  NOV01

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