PacFIN 17-DEC-03 09:23      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 NOV THRU DEC
       Longspine THDS      _      _      1      1                2        2              
      Shortspine THDS      5      _      1      6                7        7              
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     24      _      1     25               20       20              
           Dover sole     32      1      6     39               24       25              
              Petrale     84      _      1     85               23       24              
   Remaining Flatfish     99      _     12    111               74       89              

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                                        
   NTW Primary Sable*      _      _      _      _                                        
       NTW DTL Sable*    119    141    285    545              345      361              

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                        
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     26     26               27       29              
 Sablefish Conception      _      _     27     27               27       29              

              Lingcod     25     32     36     93               90       90              

       Widow Rockfish      5      _      1      6               13       13              
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                2        2              
      Canary rockfish      1      _      _      1                4        4              

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _                2        2              
          POP (V&C&E)      _      _      _      _                                        
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    168      2      _    170              275      284              
 Near-shore RF, North      _    124     50    174              220      224              
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      2      2      1      5               12       12              
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     18      _      _     18               19       19              
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     23      2     25               35       36              
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     17      1     18               47       49              
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                        

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                4        4              
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                1        1              
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     36     36               60       60              
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     31     31               49       49              
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      5      5               13       13              
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      8      8               11       11              
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     74     74               58       59              
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _     37     37               47       47              
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      4      4                6        6              
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1                2        2              

      Pacific Whiting   4079      _      _   4079                                        

      *Estimates Thru  22NOV         30NOV

       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.