PacFIN 18-MAR-05 17:07      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Limited Entry Best Estimates* of 2005 Cumulative Shoreside Landed Catch and At-Sea* Total
  Removals. Catch values are in Metric-tons.

                    NON-TRIBAL                          2005     2004  TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif     Total     HG  THRU FEB THRU DEC
       Longspine THDS      _     25     81      106               75      739
      Shortspine THDS      3     31     66      100     992       71      677
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     16    125     90      231    3505      175     2308
           Dover sole    113    812    356     1281             1040     6651
              Petrale    248    622    245     1115              752     1875
         English Sole     18    105     69      192              117      874
  Arrowtooth Flounder    132    222     13      367              214     2245
   Remaining Flatfish      6     80     88      174              124     1319

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _        _
   NTW Primary Sable*      _      _      _        _                      1976
       NTW DTL Sable*      2      1      9       12               17       80

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _        _
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _      _        _               11       77
 Sablefish Conception      _      _     30       30               14      156

              Lingcod      2      4      4       10     223        2       73
        Spiny Dogfish     72      _      _       72               37      287

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      _        _     274                36
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      _     20      4       24               20      192
      Canary rockfish      _      _      _        _      20                 8

          POP (V&C&E)      4     11      _       15               16      117
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)      1      2      _        3    3550               205
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _      _      _        _                         3
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _        _                         1
  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _        _
 Black Rockfish, Nor.      _      1      _        1                        14
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _      _      _        _                         3
  Near-shore RF, Nor.      _      _      _        _      49                 2
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      _      _      _        _     878                36
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      4     16      3       23    1064       19      203

 TWL Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      _        _                         6
 NTW Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      _        _                         2
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      1        1    1099        1       42
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     35       35               34      162
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _      _        _
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _        _                         2
  Black Rockfish, So.      _      _      _        _
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      _        _
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _        _
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _      _        _
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _      _        _                         3
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      1        1     364                 8
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     22       22     356       20      276

      Pacific Whiting      _      _      _        _               34    89608

      *Estimates Thru  28FEB         28FEB

       HARD DATA THRU  DEC04  FEB05  DEC04

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 18-MAR-2005.

  HG = Target Landed Harvest Guideline
  The HGs are commercial (LE and OA) guidelines only, the anticipated
  recreational catches are not included on this report.

  * The at-sea catch statistics are estimates of total removals including discards.

  * The nontrawl (NTW) sablefish catch displayed on the Total Fleet report
    includes catches for both the limited entry and open access fisheries.

  * The values for NTW Primary Sable and NTW DTL Sable include areas V&C&E&M.

  * The 2005 Harvest Guideline for Bocaccio MT&CP (all gears) = 85 mtons.

  * The 2005 Harvest Guideline for Near-Shore Rockfish South = 97 mtons.

  * The 2005 HG for Pacific Whiting is the total U.S. coastwide allocation.

  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.
    So.   = Monteray and Conception INPFC areas combined.
   Nor.   = Vancouver & Columbia & Eureka INPFC areas combined.