PacFIN 08-OCT-02 08:10      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   2010   2235   4612    7000     6776     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    543    730   1281    2037     1162     1187
      Shortspine THDS     32    176    317    525     759      492      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    100    634    462   1196    1601     2493     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    429    513    341   1283    1780     1714     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    112    112     211      107      141

              Lingcod     33     66     64    163     201      137      156

       Widow Rockfish     42      6     10     58     596     1142     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     50     45    101     168      151      160
      Canary rockfish     11     13     10     34      35       38       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       11       11
          POP (V&C&E)     37     94      _    131     294      243      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    511    141     10    662    2225     1579     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    136     82    218     324      261      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     32     12     16     60     958       96      201
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     56     56     12    124    1160      190      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      37       20       22
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    147    147    1668      236      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     40     40     387       70       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    118    118     130      130      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     21     21     514       30       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    349    349     639      185      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     17     17               10       13

      Pacific Whiting  10618  32305   2776  45699   44906    73421    73475

      *Estimates Thru  28SEP  28SEP  28SEP

       HARD DATA THRU  JUL02  AUG02  JUL02

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