PacFIN 24-MAY-02 13:25      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 MAY THRU DEC
           Dover sole    227   1403    873   2503    7000     4496     6849
       Longspine THDS      8    438    307    753    2037      586     1164
      Shortspine THDS     13    131    166    310     759      256      539
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     56    349    195    600    1601      866     2552

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     41     77    130    248    1780      112     2248

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     51     51     211       47      141

              Lingcod      7     11     15     33     201       25      156

       Widow Rockfish      6      1      3     10     596      948     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     33     52     90     168       63      146
      Canary rockfish      1      1      2      4      35       10       39

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4        3       12
          POP (V&C&E)     14     45      _     59     294       62      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    129     30      1    160    2225     1134     1763
 Near-shore RF, North      _     46     11     57     324      115      280
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      2      6      2     10     958       36      320
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     13     38      6     57    1160       92      204
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     14     14      37        8       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     98     98    1668      135      338
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     24     24     387       26       58
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     36     36     130       44      177
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      7      7     514       11       32
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    173    173     639       94      258
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                3       13

      Pacific Whiting      _      4    282    286   44906     2000    73475

      *Estimates Thru  11MAY  18MAY  18MAY

       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.