PacFIN 15-AUG-03 17:02      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 JUL THRU DEC
       Longspine THDS     17    556    507   1080             1129     1893              
      Shortspine THDS     23    214    277    514              450      753              
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     93    730    474   1297             1059     1498              
           Dover sole    258   2240   1789   4287             3972     6274              
              Petrale    239    689    243   1171             1317     1773              
   Remaining Flatfish    990   1113    644   2747             3489     4894              

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                                        
   NTW Primary Sable*    220    507     88    815              529      956              
       NTW DTL Sable*     13     16     54     83               79      340              

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                        
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     58     58               58      112              
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    126    126               87      161              

              Lingcod     12     26      8     46               81      115              

       Widow Rockfish      5      8      4     17               29      262              
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     23      2     26               95      100              
      Canary rockfish      2      2      _      4               29       43              

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                                        
          POP (V&C&E)     19     56      _     75              117      146              
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     67     41      1    109              341      727              
 Near-shore RF, North      _      7      6     13               19       35              
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      5      5     10     20               36       49              
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     23     51      5     79               84      128              
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _      3      _      3                9       12              
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _      3      _      3                4        6              
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                        

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      4      4              147      151              
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     52     52               34       47              
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _      _      _                1        1              
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _      _      _               10       10              
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _                                        
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      1      1               14       16              
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    158    158              277      398              
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                1        1              
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      _      _                                        
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _               15       15              

      Pacific Whiting  12901  36575   1731  51207            45537    45708              

      *Estimates Thru  31JUL         31JUL

       HARD DATA THRU  JUL03  JUL03  JUN03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 15-AUG-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.