PacFIN 04-AUG-03 11:14      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     17    548    503   1068    2461     1136     1899      _       
      Shortspine THDS     29    210    244    483     955      460      763      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    109    712    448   1269    6500     1075     1523      _       
           Dover sole    286   2150   1659   4095    7440     3989     6306     16     16
              Petrale    300    671    233   1204    2762     1329     1796     24     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1324   1072    574   2970    7700     3520     4982     52     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              354    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    199    418     77    694              529      955      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    107    310    181    598              268      701      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     62     62               79      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    112    112     294      108      189      _       

              Lingcod     30     39     20     89     651      132      204     12     11

       Widow Rockfish      5     11      4     20     832       36      275      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     21      2     24     172       97      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      2      2      _      4      44       31       47      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     19     55      _     74     377      118      147      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     95     39      1    135    3146      618     1270      8    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _     76     28    104              154      258      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      7      5      9     21               43       61      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     40     49      3     92               97      145      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     17      1     18               32       48      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     18      1     19               33       55      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      4      4    2000      151      153      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     51     51     461       35       49      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     14     14      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.      _      _    194    194              328      457      _       
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _     35     35               48       47      _       
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      3      3                6        5      _       
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               17       17      _       

      Pacific Whiting  12095  38024   1803  51922  148200    45537    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  26JUL  26JUL  26JUL

       HARD DATA THRU  JUN03  JUN03  MAY03                                   JUN03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 31-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.