PacFIN 17-MAY-02 19:10      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    204   1316    784   2304    7000     3797     6849
       Longspine THDS      8    411    270    689    2037      436     1164
      Shortspine THDS     12    121    145    278     759      194      539
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     50    327    169    546    1601      534     2552

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     17     35    119    171    1780       85     2248

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     48     48     211       36      141

              Lingcod      5      4     11     20     201        2      156

       Widow Rockfish      4      1      3      8     596      853     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      4     31     38     73     168       48      146
      Canary rockfish      1      1      2      4      35        5       39

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4        2       12
          POP (V&C&E)     14     37      _     51     294       47      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     97     26      1    124    2225     1008     1763
 Near-shore RF, North      _     36      8     44     324       79      280
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      2      2      2      6     958       25      320
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     11     33      5     49    1160       67      204
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     12     12      37        7       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     84     84    1668       89      338
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     22     22     387       22       58
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     30     30     130       27      177
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      7      7     514        8       32
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    166    166     639       72      258
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                1       13

      Pacific Whiting      _      4    157    161   44906      617    73475

      *Estimates Thru  30APR  30APR  30APR

       HARD DATA THRU  MAR02  APR02  FEB02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 17-MAY-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.