PacFIN 12-SEP-03 13:55      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 SEP THRU DEC  Tribal Tribal
       Longspine THDS     17    599    603   1219    2461     1342     1895      _       
      Shortspine THDS     31    235    305    571     955      555      759      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    128    829    568   1525    6500     1226     1518      _       
           Dover sole    338   2489   2265   5092    7440     4826     6298     24     16
              Petrale    371    741    259   1371    2762     1496     1797     47     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1605   1301    718   3624    7700     4295     4983     69     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              363    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    299    613    118   1030              956      955      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    118    284    235    637              379      701      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     76     76              104      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    148    148     294      142      189      _       

              Lingcod     36     54     30    120     651      172      205     16     11

       Widow Rockfish      5     14      4     23     832       56      275      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     28      3     32     172      100      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      3      2      _      5      44       41       48      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     22     66      _     88     377      130      147      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     93     50      1    144    3146      918     1270     13    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    113     46    159              216      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      9      7     10     26               56       61      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     39     57     11    107              126      145      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     21      1     22               40       48      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     21      1     22               43       55      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      5      5    2000      152      153      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     61     61     461       40       48      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     23     23      38       62       60      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     16     16      48       58       58      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _      21                        _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      5      5               25       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    236    236              394      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    45708    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  06SEP  06SEP  06SEP

       HARD DATA THRU  JUL03  JUL03  JUN03                                   JUL03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 11-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.