PacFIN 26-JUN-02 07:58      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    261   1558   1099   2918    7000     4496     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    478    365    851    2037      586     1164
      Shortspine THDS     19    145    183    347     759      256      539
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     67    394    241    702    1601      866     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     95    173    149    417    1780      112     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     57     57     211       47      141

              Lingcod     13     22     25     60     201       25      156

       Widow Rockfish      8      1      4     13     596      948     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     41     51     97     168       63      146
      Canary rockfish      2      4      4     10      35       10       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4        3       12
          POP (V&C&E)     21     58      _     79     294       62      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    211     51      2    264    2225     1134     1763
 Near-shore RF, North      _     58     20     78     324      115      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     11      5      3     19     958       35      319
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     21     43      6     70    1160       92      204
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      1      _      _      1                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      37        8       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    114    114    1668      135      339
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     26     26     387       26       58
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     51     51     130       44      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     11     11     514       11       32
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    176    176     639       94      259
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     27     27                3       13

      Pacific Whiting      _     43    349    392   44906     2000    73475

      *Estimates Thru  31MAY  31MAY  31MAY

       HARD DATA THRU  APR02  MAY02  MAR02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 14-JUN-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.