PacFIN 18-JUL-03 08:49      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

  Open Access Best Estimates* of 2003 Cumulative Shoreside Commercial
  Landed Catch. Catch values are in Metric-tons

                                                     2003     2002  TOTALS
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     OY  THRU JUN THRU DEC
       Longspine THDS      _      _      _      _                2        3              
      Shortspine THDS      5      _      2      7                6        7              
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)      9      _      4     13                7       20              
           Dover sole     16      1     13     30                7       25              
              Petrale     21      _      _     21                8       24              
   Remaining Flatfish     52      _      6     58               25       89              

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                                        
   NTW Primary Sable*      _      _      _      _                                        
       NTW DTL Sable*     69    105    132    306              152      361              

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                        
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     15     15               21       29              
 Sablefish Conception      _      _     19     19               21       29              

              Lingcod     13     11     11     35               37       90              

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      _      _                6       13              
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                2        3              
      Canary rockfish      1      _      _      1                2        4              

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                                        
          POP (V&C&E)      _      _      _      _                                        
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)      8      1      _      9              118      284              
 Near-shore RF, North      _     61     19     80              110      224              
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      1      1      _      2                6       12              
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     11      _      _     11               11       19              
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     11      1     12               21       36              
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     13      1     14               27       49              
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                        

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                4        4              
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _      4      4                         1              
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     11     11               33       61              
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _      8      8               26       49              
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _               10       13              
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      3      3               10       11              
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     49     49               46       59              
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _     28     28               47       47              
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      3      3                6        6              
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1                2        2              

      Pacific Whiting      _      _      _      _                                        

      *Estimates Thru  30JUN         30JUN

       HARD DATA THRU  JUN03  JUN03  MAY03

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