PacFIN 08-SEP-03 10:29      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 AUG THRU DEC  Tribal Tribal
       Longspine THDS     17    584    590   1191    2461     1219     1895      _       
      Shortspine THDS     30    227    300    557     955      504      759      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    119    793    547   1459    6500     1157     1518      _       
           Dover sole    330   2415   2143   4888    7440     4453     6298     24     16
              Petrale    333    728    257   1318    2762     1471     1797     47     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1439   1248    709   3396    7700     4223     4983     69     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              363    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    261    571     97    929              705      955      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    106    133    225    464              320      701      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     76     76               91      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    148    148     294      121      189      _       

              Lingcod     34     50     28    112     651      159      205     16     11

       Widow Rockfish      5     15      4     24     832       54      275      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     27      3     31     172      100      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      3      2      _      5      44       40       48      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     21     65      _     86     377      129      147      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     89     47      1    137    3146      793     1270     13    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    109     44    153              188      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      8      7     10     25               54       61      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     36     56      8    100              111      145      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     20      1     21               35       48      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     21      1     22               37       55      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      5      5    2000      151      153      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     60     60     461       37       48      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     21     21      38       62       60      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     14     14      48       58       58      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _      21                        _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      4      4               24       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    232    232              370      457      _       
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _     36     36               48       46      _       
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      4      4                6        5      _       
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               18       17      _       

      Pacific Whiting  12901  36576   1731  51208  148200    45705    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  23AUG  30AUG  30AUG

       HARD DATA THRU  JUL03  JUL03  JUN03                                   JUL03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 29-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.