PacFIN 18-JUL-03 08:49      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Limited Entry Best Estimates* of 2003 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial
  Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons

                                                     2003     2002  TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     OY  THRU JUN THRU DEC
       Longspine THDS     17    481    424    922             1038     1897              
      Shortspine THDS     19    188    229    436              407      756              
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     74    579    379   1032              931     1504              
           Dover sole    237   1943   1448   3628             3529     6281              
              Petrale    200    636    221   1057             1167     1772              
   Remaining Flatfish    808    916    536   2260             2660     4893              

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                                        
   NTW Primary Sable*    106    246     62    414              366      956              
       NTW DTL Sable*     16     31     39     86               69      340              

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                        
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     41     41               55      111              
 Sablefish Conception      _      _     84     84               73      160              

              Lingcod      9     20      7     36               62      115              

       Widow Rockfish      3      3      4     10               17      262              
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     19      2     22               92      100              
      Canary rockfish      2      2      _      4               20       43              

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                                        
          POP (V&C&E)     16     47      _     63              103      146              
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     40     21      1     62              242      727              
 Near-shore RF, North      _      7      3     10               17       35              
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      2      3      9     14               24       50              
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     19     41      3     63               77      128              
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _      3      _      3                8       12              
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _      3      _      3                4        7              
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                        

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      4      4              142      151              
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     44     44               33       48              
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _      _      _                1        1              
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _      1      1                9       10              
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _                1        1              
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      2      2               13       16              
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    140    140              241      398              
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                1        2              
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      _      _                                        
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _               15       15              

      Pacific Whiting   5870  18806   1770  26446            21517    45708              

      *Estimates Thru  30JUN         30JUN

       HARD DATA THRU  JUN03  JUN03  MAY03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 17-JUL-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.
     CP   = Conception area.