PacFIN 07-MAR-02 15:51      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 MAR THRU DEC
           Dover sole     87    512    372    971    7000     2557     6856
       Longspine THDS      3    124    128    255    2037      325     1169
      Shortspine THDS      5     42     65    112     759      150      535
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     17    123     66    206    1601      384     2564

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      3      2     50     55    1442       60     2237

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     47     47     211       27      140

              Lingcod      1      _      4      5     201        2      155

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      2      2     596      595     1773
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     17      2     21     168       34      143
      Canary rockfish      _      _      _      _      35        3       39

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4        1       12
          POP (V&C&E)      8     10      _     18     294       35      190
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)      5      6      _     11    2225      689     1789
 Near-shore RF, North      _      4      2      6     324       45      280
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      _      _      _      _     958       10      327
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      3     15      6     24    1160       46      203
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      6      6      37        6       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     43     43    1668       72      335
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     12     12     387       16       57
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     18     18     130       23      175
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      6      6     514        8       31
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    116    116     639       52      252
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1       13

      Pacific Whiting      _      5      _      5                8    73474

      *Estimates Thru  02MAR  28FEB  02MAR

       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.