PacFIN 10-JUN-03 08:48      Pacific Council Groundfish Best Estimate Report

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

                                                     2003     2002  TOTALS     2003   2002
                        Wash    Ore  Calif  Total     OY  THRU MAR THRU DEC  Tribal Tribal
       Longspine THDS      3    136    155    294    2461      596     1899      _         
      Shortspine THDS      6     61    108    175     955      222      763      2      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     17    191    138    346    6500      458     1523      _         
           Dover sole     86    854    666   1606    7440     1928     6306      2     16
              Petrale    108    363    168    639    2762      774     1796      1     21
   Remaining Flatfish    214    232    290    736    7700      895     4982     17     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                               60    435
   NTW Primary Sable*      _      _      _      _                       955      _         
       NTW DTL Sable*     18     15     97    130              107      701      _         

  Conptn NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _         
  Conptn NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     42     42               34      140      _         
 Sablefish Conception      _      _     51     51     294       43      189      _         

              Lingcod      4      3      3     10     651       13      204      2     11

       Widow Rockfish      _      _      1      1     832        7      275      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     11      1     13     172       48      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      1      _      _      1      44        4       47      _      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _      22                        _         
          POP (V&C&E)      5     28      _     33     377       39      147      _         
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)      5      4      1     10    3146      142     1270      _    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _     17      5     22               29      258      _         
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      _      1      _      1                5       61      _         
 Slope rockfish, Nor.      6     14      2     22               37      145      _         
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _      6      _      6               11       48      _         
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _      9      _      9               15       55      _         
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _         

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      1      1    2000       73      153      _         
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     26     26     461       22       49      _         
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _      5      5      38       16       61      _         
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _      5      5      48       17       58      _         
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _      21        4       13      _         
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      2      2                9       26      _         
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    115    115              146      457      _         
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _      6      6               19       47      _         
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      _      _                3        5      _         
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                7       17      _         

      Pacific Whiting      _      1      _      1  148200        3    45707      _         

      *Estimates Thru  31MAR  31MAR  31MAR

       HARD DATA THRU  APR03  APR03  MAR03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from PacFIN database on 06-JUN-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.