PacFIN 07-JUN-02 13:51      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 JUN THRU DEC
           Dover sole    253   1601    993   2847    7000     5158     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    493    342    843    2037      706     1164
      Shortspine THDS     17    146    181    344     759      298      539
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     64    396    216    676    1601     1261     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)     92    189    145    426    1780      159     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     53     53     211       62      141

              Lingcod     11     23     23     57     201       53      156

       Widow Rockfish      8      2      3     13     596     1048     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     40     55    100     168       83      146
      Canary rockfish      1      1      3      5      35       19       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      1      _      1       4        6       12
          POP (V&C&E)     20     61      _     81     294       93      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    214     45      1    260    2225     1355     1763
 Near-shore RF, North      _     57     17     74     324      159      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     11     22      2     35     958       54      320
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     20     46      6     72    1160      115      204
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     18     18      37       11       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    111    111    1668      158      339
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     25     25     387       29       58
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     47     47     130       60      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      9      9     514       13       32
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    183    183     639      108      259
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      3      3                4       13

      Pacific Whiting      _     35    349    384   44906    14697    73475

      *Estimates Thru  01JUN  31MAY  31MAY

       HARD DATA THRU  MAR02  APR02  FEB02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 31-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.