PacFIN 23-MAY-03 12:56      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Limited Entry 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
       Longspine THDS      8    828   1060   1896             1175     1175
      Shortspine THDS     27    266    463    756     757      509      509
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    119    774    611   1504    1601     2530     2530
           Dover sole    436   2716   3130   6282             6851     6851
              Petrale    404    892    477   1773             1820     1820
   Remaining Flatfish   1961   1593   1339   4893             5132     5132

  NTW SABL (V&C&E&M)     436    570    274   1280                          

 Sablefish Conception      _      _    160    160              119      119

              Lingcod     26     48     41    115     163       80       80

       Widow Rockfish     51     162    49    262     575     1772     1772
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      5     51     43     99     130      161      161
      Canary rockfish     16     16     11     43      30       34       34

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                9        9
          POP (V&C&E)     40    106      1    147              188      188
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    385    330     12    727    2007     1612     1612
 Near-shore RF, North      _     12     23     35     161       57       57
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     24     10     15     49     928      180      180
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     44     63     19    126    1150      166      166
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     11      1     12               20       20
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _      6      1      7                5        5
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                1        1

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _    151    151     929      298      298
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     48     48               63       63
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _      1      1                2        2
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     10     10               23       23
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      1      1                1        1
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     16     16     194       19       19
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    398    398     497      228      228
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _      2      2                          
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      _      _                          
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _     15     15                6        6

      Pacific Whiting  10630  32305   2773  45708            73412    73412

      *Estimates Thru  28DEC         28DEC

       HARD DATA THRU  APR03  APR03  MAR03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 16-MAY-2003.

  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 
  Council OY for 2003 is 6,500 metric tons for the area North of Conception 
  and 294 metric tons for the Conception INPFC area. The non-trawl sablefish 
  catch statistic does not include treaty Indian catch. The values for NTW 
  Primary Sable and NTW DTL Sable include areas V&C&E&M. 
  
  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.