PacFIN 19-JUL-02 16:53      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 JUL THRU DEC
           Dover sole    279   1668   1401   3348    7000     5762     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    501    460    969    2037      843     1164
      Shortspine THDS     19    155    213    387     759      362      539
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     75    473    299    847    1601     1721     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    137    205    229    571    1780      262     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _     94     94     211       75      141

              Lingcod     20     34     36     90     201       82      156

       Widow Rockfish     11      2      6     19     596     1085     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     45     56    106     168      101      146
      Canary rockfish      3      6      5     14      35       25       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4        7       12
          POP (V&C&E)     23     71      _     94     294      183      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    277     73      4    354    2225     1464     1763
 Near-shore RF, North      _     77     33    110     324      194      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     13      6      6     25     958       67      319
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     33     47     11     91    1160      146      204
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      37       15       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    145    145    1668      197      339
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     37     37     387       32       58
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _     79     79     130       80      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     17     17     514       16       32
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    235    235     639      133      259
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     35     35                5       13

      Pacific Whiting   9068   6796   1490  17354   44906    44808    73475

      *Estimates Thru  13JUL  13JUL  13JUL

       HARD DATA THRU  MAY02  JUN02  APR02

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