PacFIN 16-AUG-02 14:58      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 AUG THRU DEC
           Dover sole    318   1868   1766   3952    7000     6279     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    525    601   1134    2037      966     1187
      Shortspine THDS     24    164    265    453     759      406      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     84    594    372   1050    1601     2079     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    211    330    247    788    1780      955     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    135    135     211       87      141

              Lingcod     25     51     51    127     201      111      156

       Widow Rockfish     16      4      9     29     596     1123     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     48     45     98     168      118      160
      Canary rockfish      3     11      8     22      35       33       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       10       11
          POP (V&C&E)     28     86      _    114     294      206      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    335    119      8    462    2225     1537     1764
 Near-shore RF, North      _    107     49    156     324      229      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     19     13     10     42     958       92      320
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     46     51     11    108    1160      162      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      37       17       22
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    150    150    1668      202      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     38     38     387       61       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    123    123     130      105      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     21     21     514       22       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    300    300     639      157      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     15     15                6       13

      Pacific Whiting  10920  32162   3065  46147   44906    67767    73475

      *Estimates Thru  10AUG  10AUG  10AUG

       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.