PacFIN 20-SEP-03 07:05      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 AUG THRU DEC
       Longspine THDS     17    601    577   1195             1218     1894              
      Shortspine THDS     27    234    324    585              492      747              
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    110    829    538   1477             1148     1497              
           Dover sole    313   2490   2145   4948             4438     6271              
              Petrale    322    733    260   1315             1459     1773              
   Remaining Flatfish   1524   1272    752   3548             4189     4893              

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                                        
   NTW Primary Sable*    288    615    102   1005              590      843              
       NTW DTL Sable*     26     39     52    117               86      322              

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                        
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     63     63               69      112              
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    137    137               99      161              

              Lingcod     14     31     10     55               92      114              

       Widow Rockfish      5      8      4     17               43      262              
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     29      5     35               92       95              
      Canary rockfish      2      3      _      5               36       42              

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                                        
          POP (V&C&E)     22     66      _     88              129      146              
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     77     48      1    126              431      724              
 Near-shore RF, North      _     10      8     18               22       32              
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      7      6     10     23               42       47              
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     27     58      8     93               93      124              
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _      3      _      3                5        7              
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _      3      _      3                2        3              
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                        

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      5      5              147      151              
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     59     59               37       47              
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _      _      _                1        1              
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _      1      1               10       10              
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _                                        
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      1      1               14       16              
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    186    186              317      398              
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                1        1              
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      _      _                                        
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _               15       15              

      Pacific Whiting  12901  36576   1741  51218            45705    45708              

      *Estimates Thru  31AUG         31AUG

       HARD DATA THRU  JUL03  AUG03  JUL03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 18-SEP-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.