PacFIN 18-JUL-03 08:50      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     17    481    424    922    2461     1040     1899      _       
      Shortspine THDS     24    188    232    444     955      413      763      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     82    579    383   1044    6500      939     1523      _       
           Dover sole    253   1944   1461   3658    7440     3536     6306     16     16
              Petrale    221    636    222   1079    2762     1175     1796     21     21
   Remaining Flatfish    859    916    544   2319    7700     2685     4982     52     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              354    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    106    246     62    414              366      955      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*     85    136    171    392              221      701      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     56     56               75      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    104    104     294       94      189      _       

              Lingcod     22     31     18     71     651       99      204     12     11

       Widow Rockfish      3      3      4     10     832       23      275      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     19      2     22     172       95      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      2      2      _      4      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)     48     23      1     72    3146      455     1270      7    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _     68     22     90              126      258      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      4      4      9     17               29       61      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     30     41      3     74               88      145      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     14      1     15               29       48      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     16      1     17               31       55      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      4      4    2000      146      153      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     49     49     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.      _      _    189    189              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   5870  18806   1770  26446  148200    21517    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  30JUN  30JUN  30JUN

       HARD DATA THRU  JUN03  JUN03  MAY03                                   JUN03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 17-JUL-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.