PacFIN 15-MAR-02 16:21      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    110    629    416   1155    7000     2544     6844
       Longspine THDS      3    187    176    366    2037      321     1167
      Shortspine THDS      6     60     83    149     759      149      534
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     21    155     85    261    1601      381     2557

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)      7      4     66     77    1780       61     2248

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     48     48     211       27      141

              Lingcod      1      1      5      7     201        2      154

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      2      2     596      595     1773
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     18      2     22     168       33      143
      Canary rockfish      _      _      1      1      35        3       39

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4        1       12
          POP (V&C&E)      8     17      _     25     294       35      190
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)      6      8      _     14    2225      689     1789
 Near-shore RF, North      _      7      3     10     324       45      280
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      _      _      _      _     958       10      327
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      3     19      6     28    1160       46      203
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      6      6      37        6       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     47     47    1668       72      338
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     12     12     387       16       58
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     19     19     130       23      176
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      6      6     514        8       32
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    122    122     639       52      258
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1       13

      Pacific Whiting      _      3      _      3                8    73475

      *Estimates Thru  09MAR  09MAR  09MAR

       HARD DATA THRU  DEC01  FEB02  DEC01

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