PacFIN 01-NOV-02 15:28      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    407   2203   2612   5222    7000     6814     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    611    860   1479    2037     1183     1187
      Shortspine THDS     31    191    380    602     759      510      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    112    681    524   1317    1601     2554     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    472    563    436   1471    1780     2160     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    141    141     211      122      141

              Lingcod     36     75     71    182     201      156      156

       Widow Rockfish     38      6     10     54     596     1147     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     50     43     99     168      158      160
      Canary rockfish     17     13     11     41      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)    487    149     11    647    2225     1592     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    144     88    232     324      274      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     32     22     16     70     958       98      201
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     54     57     15    126    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)      _      _     42     42     387       75       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    116    116     130      157      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     21     21     514       31       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    390    390     639      209      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     17     17               12       13

      Pacific Whiting  10604  32305   2776  45685   44906    73468    73475

      *Estimates Thru  26OCT  26OCT  26OCT

       HARD DATA THRU  AUG02  SEP02  AUG02

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