PacFIN 08-FEB-02 16:05      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 FEB THRU DEC
           Dover sole     42    222    171    435    7000     1503     6838
       Longspine THDS      _     24     48     72    2037      174     1163
      Shortspine THDS      1     12     29     42     759       88      532
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)      7     33     25     65    1601      217     2560

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      _      1     23     24    1442       31     2212

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     18     18     211       14      134

              Lingcod      _      _      2      2     201               155

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      1      1     596      394     1719
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     12      1     15     168       22      142
      Canary rockfish      _      _      _      _      35        2       39

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4        1       12
          POP (V&C&E)      4      4      _      8     294       24      191
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)      2      _      _      2    2225      403     1761
 Near-shore RF, North      _      1      _      1     324       22      280
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      _      _      _      _     958        3      196
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      2      6      2     10    1160       30      202
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      2      2      37        3       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     16     16    1668       50      320
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _      3      3     387        9       53
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _      6      6     130       18      168
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      2      2     514        5       32
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     32     32     639       32      234
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                        13

      Pacific Whiting      _      3      _      3                     73474

      *Estimates Thru  02FEB  31JAN  02FEB

       HARD DATA THRU  NOV01  DEC01  OCT01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 01-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.