PacFIN 17-DEC-03 09:21      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 NOV THRU DEC
       Longspine THDS     30    727    752   1509             1847     1892              
      Shortspine THDS     38    301    420    759              735      753              
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    161   1226    750   2137             1477     1501              
           Dover sole    422   3507   3095   7024             6097     6274              
              Petrale    383    948    346   1677             1674     1773              
   Remaining Flatfish   1847   1696   1034   4577             4778     4894              

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                                        
   NTW Primary Sable*    602    669    199   1470              960      960              
       NTW DTL Sable*    125     95    154    374              331      336              

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                        
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     85     85              100      112              
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    149    149              148      161              

              Lingcod     18     37     15     70              113      115              

       Widow Rockfish      5      8      4     17              191      260              
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     64      9     75              100      100              
      Canary rockfish      4      4      1      9               43       43              

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      1      _      1                                        
          POP (V&C&E)     29     98      _    127              142      147              
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     84     51      1    136              617      729              
 Near-shore RF, North      _     10     10     20               35       35              
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     13     10     11     34               49       49              
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     38     90     18    146              123      128              
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _      3      _      3               12       12              
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _      3      _      3                6        6              
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                        

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      8      8              150      151              
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     88     88               47       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.      _      _      3      3               16       16              
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    238    238              371      398              
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                1        1              
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      _      _                                        
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _               15       15              

      Pacific Whiting  12934  36581   1741  51256            45708    45708              

      *Estimates Thru  29NOV         29NOV

       HARD DATA THRU  OCT03  NOV03  OCT03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 16-DEC-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.