PacFIN 15-AUG-03 17:06      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    556    514   1087    2461     1131     1895      _       
      Shortspine THDS     27    214    269    510     955      456      759      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    104    730    478   1312    6500     1069     1518      _       
           Dover sole    282   2240   1803   4325    7440     3982     6298     24     16
              Petrale    286    689    243   1218    2762     1330     1797     47     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1060   1113    653   2826    7700     3521     4983     69     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              363    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    220    507     88    815              529      955      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*     87     92    208    387              268      701      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     74     74               79      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    144    144     294      108      189      _       

              Lingcod     30     42     22     94     651      132      205     16     11

       Widow Rockfish      5      8      4     17     832       36      275      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     23      2     26     172       97      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      3      2      _      5      44       31       48      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     19     56      _     75     377      118      147      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     82     43      1    126    3146      618     1270     13    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _     89     29    118              154      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      7      6     10     23               42       61      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     34     51      5     90               97      145      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     16      1     17               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)      _      _     57     57     461       34       48      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     16     16      38       47       60      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     12     12      48       47       58      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _      21                        _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      4      4               24       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    211    211              327      457      _       
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _     36     36               48       46      _       
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      4      4                6        5      _       
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               17       17      _       

      Pacific Whiting  12901  36575   1731  51207  148200    45537    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  31JUL  31JUL  31JUL

       HARD DATA THRU  JUL03  JUL03  JUN03                                   JUL03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 15-AUG-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.