PacFIN 13-SEP-02 18:29      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    367   1989   2000   4356    7000     6279     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    530    658   1196    2037      966     1187
      Shortspine THDS     31    170    281    482     759      406      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     99    622    411   1132    1601     2079     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    329    389    266    984    1780      955     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    134    134     211       87      141

              Lingcod     31     60     60    151     201      111      156

       Widow Rockfish     42      6     11     59     596     1123     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     50     41     97     168      118      160
      Canary rockfish     11     13      9     33      35       33       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       10       11
          POP (V&C&E)     37     93      _    130     294      206      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    510    139     10    659    2225     1537     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    114     68    182     324      229      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     32     10     13     55     958      109      442
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     49     53     13    115    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)      _      _     35     35     387       61       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    148    148     130      105      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     20     20     514       22       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    327    327     639      157      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     17     17                6       13

      Pacific Whiting  10618  32305   3256  46179   44906    67767    73475

      *Estimates Thru  31AUG  31AUG  31AUG

       HARD DATA THRU  JUL02  AUG02  JUN02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 13-SEP-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.