PacFIN 31-DEC-02 15:54      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 DEC THRU DEC
           Dover sole    455   2724   3114   6293    7000     6866     6866
       Longspine THDS      8    837   1058   1903    2037     1188     1188
      Shortspine THDS     33    263    449    745     759      517      517
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    133    780    603   1516    1601     2555     2555

 NTW Sable* (V&C&E&M)    483    618    480   1581    1780     2248     2248

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    160    160     211      141      141

              Lingcod     42     82     81    205     201      157      157

       Widow Rockfish     61    166     60    287     596     1793     1793
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      6     51     46    103     168      161      161
      Canary rockfish     19     17     10     46      35       39       39

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _       4       11       11
          POP (V&C&E)     38    107      1    146     294      247      247
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    671    322     12   1005    2225     1766     1766
 Near-shore RF, North      _    153    103    256     324      281      281
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     34     14     17     65     958      198      198
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     64     65     19    148    1160      199      199
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

     Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _     22     22      37       23       23
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    154    154    1668      325      325
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     50     50     387       90       90
 Near-shore RF, South      _      _    118    118     130      178      178
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     25     25     514       33       33
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    418    418     639      250      250
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     18     18               13       13

      Pacific Whiting  10630  32305   2773  45708   44906    73475    73475

      *Estimates Thru  14DEC  21DEC  14DEC

       HARD DATA THRU  OCT02  NOV02  OCT02

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 31-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.