PacFIN 19-NOV-02 16:02      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    416   2436   2669   5521    7000     6814     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    710    878   1596    2037     1183     1187
      Shortspine THDS     31    222    387    640     759      510      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    118    720    533   1371    1601     2554     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    448    609    443   1500    1780     2160     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    145    145     211      122      141

              Lingcod     37     80     74    191     201      156      156

       Widow Rockfish     40      6     10     56     596     1147     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     50     43     99     168      158      160
      Canary rockfish     18     16     11     45      35       38       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       11       11
          POP (V&C&E)     41    100      1    142     294      247      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    548    163     12    723    2225     1592     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    142     99    241     324      274      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     31     12     17     60     958       98      201
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     60     60     16    136    1160      198      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      37       22       22
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    149    149    1668      281      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     45     45     387       75       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    116    116     130      157      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     22     22     514       31       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    395    395     639      209      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     17     17               12       13

      Pacific Whiting  10630  32305   2776  45711   44906    73468    73475

      *Estimates Thru  31OCT  31OCT  31OCT

       HARD DATA THRU  SEP02  OCT02  AUG02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 19-NOV-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.