PacFIN 20-SEP-03 06:54      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    601    582   1200    2461     1221     1896      _       
      Shortspine THDS     31    234    312    577     955      498      753      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    121    829    539   1489    6500     1155     1516      _       
           Dover sole    337   2490   2151   4978    7440     4448     6294     24     16
              Petrale    369    733    261   1363    2762     1471     1796     47     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1594   1272    760   3626    7700     4221     4981     69     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              363    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    288    615    102   1005              590      843      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    113    140    241    494              295      675      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     82     82               91      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    157    157     294      121      189      _       

              Lingcod     35     53     32    120     651      149      195     16     11

       Widow Rockfish      5      8      5     18     832       54      275      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     29      5     35     172       94       96      _      1
      Canary rockfish      3      3      _      6      44       39       46      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     22     66      _     88     377      129      146      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     92     50      1    143    3146      783     1259     13    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    114     42    156              132      203      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      9      8     11     28               51       58      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     38     58      8    104              107      141      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     20      2     22               17       30      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     20      1     21               16       34      _       
  (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.      _      _     16     16      48       58       58      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _      21                        _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      6      6               24       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    240    240              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   1741  51218  148200    45705    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  31AUG  31AUG  31AUG

       HARD DATA THRU  JUL03  AUG03  JUL03                                   JUL03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 18-SEP-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.