PacFIN 17-OCT-03 10:29      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 SEP THRU DEC
       Longspine THDS     17    659    650   1326             1339     1892              
      Shortspine THDS     31    255    349    635              549      753              
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    132    951    616   1699             1210     1501              
           Dover sole    349   2811   2496   5656             4806     6274              
              Petrale    348    774    281   1403             1478     1773              
   Remaining Flatfish   1763   1461    830   4054             4244     4894              

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                                        
   NTW Primary Sable*    559    666    280   1505              960      960              
       NTW DTL Sable*     36     46     60    142              123      336              

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                        
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     69     69               80      112              
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    133    133              119      161              

              Lingcod     17     35     14     66               97      115              

       Widow Rockfish      5      8      4     17               43      260              
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     40      8     50               97      100              
      Canary rockfish      4      4      _      8               38       43              

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      1      _      1                                        
          POP (V&C&E)     24     82      _    106              130      147              
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     82     51      1    134              438      729              
 Near-shore RF, North      _     10      9     19               31       35              
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     12     10     10     32               45       49              
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     29     67     14    110              110      128              
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _      3      _      3               11       12              
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _      3      _      3                5        6              
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                        

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      7      7              149      151              
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     68     68               40       47              
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _      _      _                1        1              
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _      2      2               10       10              
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _                                        
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      1      1               14       16              
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    216    216              340      398              
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                1        1              
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      _      _                                        
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _               15       15              

      Pacific Whiting  12928  36578   1741  51247            45708    45708              

      *Estimates Thru  30SEP         30SEP

       HARD DATA THRU  SEP03  SEP03  AUG03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 17-OCT-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.