PacFIN 20-DEC-02 08:52      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    447   2640   3058   6145    7000     6824     6852
       Longspine THDS      8    820   1027   1855    2037     1186     1188
      Shortspine THDS     33    255    452    740     759      513      517
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    133    763    606   1502    1601     2555     2555

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    480    615    501   1596    1780     2223     2248

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    155    155     211      132      141

              Lingcod     41     81     79    201     201      157      157

       Widow Rockfish     41    119     61    221     596     1595     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     51     46    103     168      160      161
      Canary rockfish     19     17     11     47      35       39       39

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       11       11
          POP (V&C&E)     38    103      1    142     294      247      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    591    270     12    873    2225     1722     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    150    104    254     324      280      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     33     12     18     63     958      149      198
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     63     62     18    143    1160      199      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     22     22      37       22       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    152    152    1668      306      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     50     50     387       84       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    118    118     130      169      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     25     25     514       32       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    412    412     639      224      250
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     18     18               12       13

      Pacific Whiting  10630  32305   2773  45708   44906    73474    73475

      *Estimates Thru  30NOV  30NOV  30NOV

       HARD DATA THRU  OCT02  NOV02  SEP02

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