PacFIN 03-JUL-03 15:23      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 JUN THRU DEC  Tribal Tribal
       Longspine THDS     18    468    401    887    2461     1040     1899      _       
      Shortspine THDS     23    188    227    438     955      413      763      4      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     77    562    374   1013    6500      939     1523      _       
           Dover sole    243   1918   1467   3628    7440     3536     6306      4     16
              Petrale    205    634    221   1060    2762     1175     1796      2     21
   Remaining Flatfish    921    871    475   2267    7700     2685     4982     30     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              306    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    115    214     50    379              366      955      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*     70    216    160    446              221      701      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     47     47               75      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _     75     75     294       94      189      _       

              Lingcod     20     31     18     69     651       99      204      9     11

       Widow Rockfish      4      2      3      9     832       23      275      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     18      2     21     172       95      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      2      1      _      3      44       22       47      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     16     47      _     63     377      104      147      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     60     22      1     83    3146      455     1270      1    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _     61     23     84              126      258      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      6      4      2     12               29       61      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     31     40      2     73               88      145      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     14      1     15               29       48      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     15      1     16               31       55      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      1      1    2000      146      153      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     40     40     461       33       49      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     11     11      38       33       61      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _      8      8      48       34       58      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _      21       11       13      _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      4      4               23       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    181    181              286      457      _       
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _     28     28               47       47      _       
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      3      3                6        5      _       
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               17       17      _       

      Pacific Whiting   5085  15273   2436  22794  148200    21517    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  28JUN  28JUN  28JUN

       HARD DATA THRU  MAY03  MAY03  APR03                                   MAY03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 30-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.
     CP   = Conception area.