PacFIN 26-SEP-03 16:27      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    625    630   1272    2461     1342     1894      _       
      Shortspine THDS     35    247    324    606     955      555      760      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    141    877    585   1603    6500     1226     1519      _       
           Dover sole    366   2593   2349   5308    7440     4826     6298     25     16
              Petrale    400    752    266   1418    2762     1496     1797     65     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1811   1324    780   3915    7700     4295     4983     84     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              416    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    486    630    134   1250              960      960      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    129    170    258    557              375      696      _       

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

              Lingcod     39     57     34    130     651      172      205     19     11

       Widow Rockfish      5      9      5     19     832       56      273      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     32      5     39     172      100      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      4      3      _      7      44       41       48      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     24     73      _     97     377      130      146      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    101     52      1    154    3146      918     1271     18    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    119     46    165              216      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     11      9     11     31               56       61      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     44     61     13    118              126      145      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     22      2     24               40       48      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     20      1     21               43       55      _       
  (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  15243  36577   1741  53561  148200    45708    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  20SEP  20SEP  13SEP

       HARD DATA THRU  AUG03  AUG03  JUL03                                   AUG03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 24-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.