PacFIN 20-SEP-03 06:45      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    606    630   1253    2461     1344     1896      _       
      Shortspine THDS     32    236    324    592     955      549      753      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    132    840    585   1557    6500     1224     1516      _       
           Dover sole    344   2504   2349   5197    7440     4821     6294     24     16
              Petrale    372    738    266   1376    2762     1496     1796     47     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1613   1288    780   3681    7700     4293     4981     69     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              363    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    325    617    134   1076              843      843      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    121    141    258    520              354      675      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     82     82              104      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    157    157     294      142      189      _       

              Lingcod     37     55     34    126     651      162      195     16     11

       Widow Rockfish      5      8      5     18     832       56      275      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      1     29      5     35     172       94       96      _      1
      Canary rockfish      3      3      _      6      44       40       46      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     22     67      _     89     377      130      146      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)     93     50      1    144    3146      908     1259     13    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    117     46    163              160      203      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.      9      8     11     28               53       58      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     39     58     13    110              122      141      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     21      2     23               22       30      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     20      1     21               22       34      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      6      6    2000      152      153      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     62     62     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.      _      _      6      6               25       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    259    259              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   1741  51218  148200    45708    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  13SEP  13SEP  13SEP

       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.