PacFIN 20-SEP-03 07:14      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 AUG THRU DEC
       Longspine THDS      _      _      _      _                2        2              
      Shortspine THDS      5      _      1      6                6        7              
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     12      _      1     13                8       19              
           Dover sole     24      _      6     30               10       23              
              Petrale     47      _      1     48               12       24              
   Remaining Flatfish     69      _      8     77               33       88              

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                                        
   NTW Primary Sable*      _      _      _      _                                        
       NTW DTL Sable*     89    101    189    379              209      353              

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                        
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     19     19               22       29              
 Sablefish Conception      _      _     20     20               22       29              

              Lingcod     19     22     23     64               57       81              

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      1      1               11       13              
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                2        2              
      Canary rockfish      1      _      _      1                3        4              

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                                        
          POP (V&C&E)      _      _      _      _                                        
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     14      2      _     16              182      277              
 Near-shore RF, North      _    105     35    140              110      172              
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      1      1      1      3                8       11              
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     12      _      _     12               14       19              
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     17      2     19               12       23              
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     17      1     18               14       31              
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                        

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                4        4              
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                         1              
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     21     21               60       60              
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     16     16               48       49              
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _                                        
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      4      4               10       11              
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     53     53               53       59              
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _     36     36               47       47              
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      4      4                6        6              
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1                2        2              

      Pacific Whiting      _      _      _      _                                        

      *Estimates Thru  30AUG         31AUG

       HARD DATA THRU  JUL03  AUG03  JUL03

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