PacFIN 12-APR-02 16:35      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 APR THRU DEC
           Dover sole    177    949    549   1675    7000     3797     6844
       Longspine THDS      6    315    216    537    2037      435     1167
      Shortspine THDS     11     94    114    219     759      195      534
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     32    247    112    391    1601      537     2557

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     14      9     89    112    1780       85     2248

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     56     56     211       36      141

              Lingcod      2      1      6      9     201        2      154

       Widow Rockfish      1      _      3      4     596      853     1773
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     24      5     33     168       47      143
      Canary rockfish      _      _      1      1      35        5       39

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4        2       12
          POP (V&C&E)     12     22      _     34     294       46      190
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     44      8      _     52    2225     1014     1789
 Near-shore RF, North      _      9      4     13     324       79      280
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      1      _      _      1     958       26      327
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      6     24      6     36    1160       68      203
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      9      9      37        7       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     62     62    1668       89      338
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     15     15     387       22       58
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     20     20     130       27      176
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      6      6     514        8       32
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    156    156     639       72      258
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1       13

      Pacific Whiting      _      3      _      3              617    73475

      *Estimates Thru  06APR  06APR  30MAR

       HARD DATA THRU  JAN02  FEB02  DEC01

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 12-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.