PacFIN 20-SEP-02 16:40      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 SEP THRU DEC
           Dover sole    367   1996   2056   4419    7000     6776     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    530    676   1214    2037     1162     1187
      Shortspine THDS     31    170    295    496     759      492      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    100    623    419   1142    1601     2493     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    370    425    301   1096    1780     1714     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    134    134     211      107      141

              Lingcod     33     63     61    157     201      137      156

       Widow Rockfish     42     18     11     71     596     1142     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     50     43     99     168      151      160
      Canary rockfish     11     13      9     33      35       38       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       11       11
          POP (V&C&E)     37     93      _    130     294      243      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    510    139     10    659    2225     1579     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    125     72    197     324      261      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     32     12     14     58     958       96      201
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     52     55     12    119    1160      190      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     20     20      37       20       22
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    147    147    1668      236      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     40     40     387       70       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    151    151     130      130      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     21     21     514       30       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    333    333     639      185      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     17     17               10       13

      Pacific Whiting  10618  32305   3261  46184   44906    73421    73475

      *Estimates Thru  14SEP  14SEP  14SEP

       HARD DATA THRU  JUL02  AUG02  JUN02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 20-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.