PacFIN 16-AUG-02 15:00      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    303   1852   1706   3861    7000     5762     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    525    590   1123    2037      848     1187
      Shortspine THDS     23    163    260    446     759      357      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     82    591    364   1037    1601     1721     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    183    325    242    750    1780      262     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    135    135     211       75      141

              Lingcod     23     48     50    121     201       82      156

       Widow Rockfish     15      4      9     28     596     1085     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     48     44     97     168      100      160
      Canary rockfish      3     11      8     22      35       25       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4        7       11
          POP (V&C&E)     27     86      _    113     294      183      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    315    118      8    441    2225     1464     1764
 Near-shore RF, North      _     99     46    145     324      193      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     17      9      9     35     958       68      320
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     38     51     11    100    1160      143      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      37       14       22
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    150    150    1668      183      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     38     38     387       55       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    122    122     130       79      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     21     21     514       17       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    297    297     639      134      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     15     15                5       13

      Pacific Whiting  10893  32160   3065  46118   44906    44808    73475

      *Estimates Thru  31JUL  31JUL  31JUL

       HARD DATA THRU  MAY02  JUL02  MAY02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-AUG-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.