PacFIN 03-DEC-02 07:07      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    430   2526   2985   5941    7000     6822     6850
       Longspine THDS      8    779   1003   1790    2037     1185     1187
      Shortspine THDS     31    243    443    717     759      513      516
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    124    747    592   1463    1601     2554     2554

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    455    612    484   1551    1780     2222     2247

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    151    151     211      132      141

              Lingcod     38     81     78    197     201      156      156

       Widow Rockfish     41     60     56    157     596     1595     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     51     46    103     168      159      160
      Canary rockfish     18     16     11     45      35       38       38

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       11       11
          POP (V&C&E)     41    101      1    143     294      247      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    586    191     12    789    2225     1722     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    150    102    252     324      280      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     32     13     18     63     958      152      201
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     60     61     18    139    1160      199      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     22     22      37       22       22
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    150    150    1668      306      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     48     48     387       84       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    116    116     130      169      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     22     22     514       32       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    408    408     639      223      249
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     18     18               12       13

      Pacific Whiting  10630  32305   2773  45708   44906    73474    73475

      *Estimates Thru  16NOV  23NOV  23NOV

       HARD DATA THRU  SEP02  OCT02  SEP02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 27-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.