PacFIN 15-NOV-02 17:31      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 NOV THRU DEC
           Dover sole    411   2466   2802   5679    7000     6822     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    735    949   1692    2037     1185     1187
      Shortspine THDS     32    227    413    672     759      513      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    112    727    563   1402    1601     2554     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    476    611    469   1556    1780     2222     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    145    145     211      132      141

              Lingcod     37     80     76    193     201      156      156

       Widow Rockfish     38     19     22     79     596     1595     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     50     44    100     168      159      160
      Canary rockfish     17     16     11     44      35       38       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       11       11
          POP (V&C&E)     37    100      1    138     294      247      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    487    175     12    674    2225     1722     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    149     99    248     324      280      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     32     13     17     62     958      152      201
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     54     61     16    131    1160      199      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     21     21      37       22       22
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    149    149    1668      306      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     46     46     387       84       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    116    116     130      169      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     22     22     514       32       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    396    396     639      223      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     17     17               12       13

      Pacific Whiting  10604  32305   2776  45685   44906    73474    73475

      *Estimates Thru  02NOV  09NOV  09NOV

       HARD DATA THRU  AUG02  OCT02  AUG02

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