PacFIN 16-OCT-02 08:14      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   2008   2285   4660    7000     6776     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    542    738   1288    2037     1162     1187
      Shortspine THDS     30    175    322    527     759      492      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     99    636    470   1205    1601     2493     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    437    512    350   1299    1780     1714     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    118    118     211      107      141

              Lingcod     32     66     66    164     201      137      156

       Widow Rockfish     38      6     11     55     596     1142     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     50     45    101     168      151      160
      Canary rockfish     17     13     10     40      35       38       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       11       11
          POP (V&C&E)     35     94      1    130     294      243      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    478    144     10    632    2225     1579     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    131     88    219     324      261      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     32     11     17     60     958       96      201
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     50     55     12    117    1160      190      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      37       20       22
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    148    148    1668      236      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     40     40     387       70       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    126    126     130      130      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     21     21     514       30       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    351    351     639      185      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     17     17               10       13

      Pacific Whiting  10604  32305   2776  45685   44906    73421    73475

      *Estimates Thru  30SEP  30SEP  30SEP

       HARD DATA THRU  AUG02  SEP02  JUL02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 15-OCT-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.