PacFIN 26-APR-02 12:18      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    197   1014    556   1767    7000     2544     6849
       Longspine THDS      8    321    217    546    2037      322     1164
      Shortspine THDS     11     94    114    219     759      149      539
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     32    258    114    404    1601      378     2552

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     13      7     89    109    1780       60     2248

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     58     58     211       27      141

              Lingcod      2      1      6      9     201        2      156

       Widow Rockfish      1      _      3      4     596      596     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     25      5     34     168       34      146
      Canary rockfish      1      _      1      2      35        3       39

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4        1       12
          POP (V&C&E)     14     27      _     41     294       35      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     47     13      _     60    2225      689     1763
 Near-shore RF, North      _     20      4     24     324       45      280
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      1      _      _      1     958       10      320
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      6     26      6     38    1160       47      204
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                         1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      9      9      37        6       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     70     70    1668       72      338
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     16     16     387       16       58
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     21     21     130       23      177
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      6      6     514        8       32
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    158    158     639       52      258
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1       13

      Pacific Whiting      _      3      _      3                8    73475

      *Estimates Thru  31MAR  31MAR  31MAR

       HARD DATA THRU  FEB02  MAR02  DEC01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 26-APR-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.