PacFIN 14-NOV-03 15:41      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 OCT THRU DEC
       Longspine THDS     27    703    725   1455             1631     1892              
      Shortspine THDS     36    281    386    703              649      753              
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    152   1084    689   1925             1368     1501              
           Dover sole    396   3169   2829   6394             5573     6274              
              Petrale    352    841    309   1502             1576     1773              
   Remaining Flatfish   1804   1609    884   4297             4606     4894              

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                                        
   NTW Primary Sable*    675    669    288   1632              960      960              
       NTW DTL Sable*     41     82     98    221              303      336              

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                        
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     74     74               90      112              
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    138    138              133      161              

              Lingcod     18     37     14     69              110      115              

       Widow Rockfish      5      8      4     17               43      260              
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     51      9     62               97      100              
      Canary rockfish      4      4      _      8               41       43              

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      1      _      1                                        
          POP (V&C&E)     27     89      _    116              139      147              
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     82     51      1    134              464      729              
 Near-shore RF, North      _     10      9     19               34       35              
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     13     10     10     33               47       49              
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     33     77     16    126              119      128              
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _      3      _      3               12       12              
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _      3      _      3                6        6              
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                        

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      9      9              150      151              
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     74     74               43       47              
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _      _      _                1        1              
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _      2      2               10       10              
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _                1        1              
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      1      1               15       16              
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    234    234              357      398              
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                1        1              
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      _      _                                        
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _               15       15              

      Pacific Whiting  12935  36580   1741  51256            45708    45708              

      *Estimates Thru  31OCT         31OCT

       HARD DATA THRU  SEP03  OCT03  AUG03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 13-NOV-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.