PacFIN 30-AUG-02 13:40      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    352   1943   1943   4238    7000     6279     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    529    643   1180    2037      966     1187
      Shortspine THDS     29    167    274    470     759      406      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     96    610    400   1106    1601     2079     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    279    369    257    905    1780      955     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    129    129     211       87      141

              Lingcod     31     56     57    144     201      111      156

       Widow Rockfish     31      5     11     47     596     1123     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     49     40     94     168      118      160
      Canary rockfish      5     11      9     25      35       33       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       10       11
          POP (V&C&E)     37     89      _    126     294      206      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    444    128     10    582    2225     1537     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    113     61    174     324      229      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     27     27     12     66     958       92      320
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     52     51     13    116    1160      162      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     20     20      37       17       22
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    147    147    1668      202      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     32     32     387       61       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    133    133     130      105      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     20     20     514       22       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    311    311     639      157      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     17     17                6       13

      Pacific Whiting  11004  32165   3256  46425   44906    67767    73475

      *Estimates Thru  24AUG  24AUG  24AUG

       HARD DATA THRU  MAY02  JUL02  JUN02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 30-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.