PacFIN 01-MAR-02 15:17      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     61    425    312    798    7000     1516     6856
       Longspine THDS      1    101    101    203    2037      177     1169
      Shortspine THDS      2     35     55     92     759       89      535
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     10     99     55    164    1601      219     2564

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      1      1     41     43    1442       31     2237

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     29     29     211       14      140

              Lingcod      1      _      3      4     201               155

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      2      2     596      394     1773
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     15      2     19     168       23      143
      Canary rockfish      _      _      _      _      35        2       39

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4        1       12
          POP (V&C&E)      5      9      _     14     294       24      190
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)      3      6      _      9    2225      403     1789
 Near-shore RF, North      _      3      1      4     324       22      280
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      _      _      _      _     958        3      327
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      2     13      4     19    1160       30      203
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      5      5      37        3       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     35     35    1668       50      335
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     10     10     387        9       57
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     13     13     130       18      175
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      3      3     514        5       31
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     76     76     639       32      252
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                        13

      Pacific Whiting      _      2      _      2                     73474

      *Estimates Thru  16FEB  23FEB  23FEB

       HARD DATA THRU  DEC01  JAN02  NOV01

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