PacFIN 21-JAN-04 08:57      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 DEC THRU DEC
       Longspine THDS      _      _      1      1                2        2              
      Shortspine THDS      6      _      1      7                7        7              
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     24      _      _     24               20       20              
           Dover sole     33      1      2     36               25       25              
              Petrale     84      _      1     85               24       24              
   Remaining Flatfish    101      _     13    114               89       89              

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                                        
   NTW Primary Sable*      _      _      _      _                                        
       NTW DTL Sable*    120    143    296    559              361     1082              

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                        
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     29     29               29       87              
 Sablefish Conception      _      _     29     29               29       29              

              Lingcod     25     32     37     94               90       90              

       Widow Rockfish      9      _      1     10               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)    256      3      _    259              284      284              
 Near-shore RF, North      _     16      7     23               37       37              
 Black Rockfish, Nor.      _    108     44    152              187      187              
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      2      2      1      5               12       12              
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     20      _      _     20               19       19              
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     23      2     25               36       36              
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     17      1     18               49       49              
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                        

 TWL Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                                        
 NTW Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                3        3              
  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.      _      _     28     28               42       42              
  Black Rockfish, So.      _      _      3      3                7        7              
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      5      5               13       13              
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      8      8               11       11              
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _     79     79               59       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                                        
       Tribal Whiting      _      _      _      _                                        

      *Estimates Thru  22NOV         31DEC

       HARD DATA THRU  NOV03  DEC03  NOV03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 15-JAN-2004.

  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 2004 is 7,510 metric tons for the area North of Conception 
  and 276 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.