PacFIN 14-JUL-03 10:26      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 JUL THRU DEC  Tribal Tribal
       Longspine THDS     18    483    421    922    2461     1136     1899      _       
      Shortspine THDS     24    192    232    448     955      460      763      4      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)     80    592    393   1065    6500     1075     1523      _       
           Dover sole    250   1963   1521   3734    7440     3989     6306      4     16
              Petrale    213    643    222   1078    2762     1329     1796      2     21
   Remaining Flatfish    967    901    477   2345    7700     3520     4982     30     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              306    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    132    284     62    478              529      955      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*     78    287    165    530              268      701      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     47     47               79      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _     78     78     294      108      189      _       

              Lingcod     21     32     20     73     651      132      204      9     11

       Widow Rockfish      4      3      3     10     832       36      275      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     20      2     23     172       97      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      2      1      _      3      44       31       47      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     16     48      _     64     377      118      147      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     77     23      1    101    3146      618     1270      1    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _     61     23     84              154      258      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      6      4      2     12               43       61      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     33     41      3     77               97      145      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     14      1     15               32       48      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     16      1     17               33       55      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      1      1    2000      151      153      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     41     41     461       35       49      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     11     11      38       48       61      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _      8      8      48       47       58      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _      21       13       13      _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      4      4               23       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    187    187              328      457      _       
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _     29     29               48       47      _       
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      3      3                6        5      _       
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               17       17      _       

      Pacific Whiting   8197  22694   2495  33386  148200    45537    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  05JUL  05JUL  05JUL

       HARD DATA THRU  MAY03  MAY03  APR03                                   MAY03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 08-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.