PacFIN 18-OCT-02 14:01      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 OCT THRU DEC
           Dover sole    388   2054   2388   4830    7000     6814     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    558    763   1329    2037     1183     1187
      Shortspine THDS     30    180    333    543     759      510      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    108    650    482   1240    1601     2554     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    462    525    369   1356    1780     2160     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    130    130     211      122      141

              Lingcod     34     68     66    168     201      156      156

       Widow Rockfish     38      6     11     55     596     1147     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     50     45    101     168      158      160
      Canary rockfish     17     13     10     40      35       38       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       11       11
          POP (V&C&E)     37     94      1    132     294      247      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    482    144     10    636    2225     1592     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    135     88    223     324      274      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     32     13     17     62     958       98      201
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     53     55     12    120    1160      198      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      37       22       22
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    148    148    1668      281      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     44     44     387       75       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    126    126     130      157      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     21     21     514       31       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    371    371     639      209      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     17     17               12       13

      Pacific Whiting  10604  32305   2776  45685   44906    73468    73475

      *Estimates Thru  12OCT  12OCT  12OCT

       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.