PacFIN 17-OCT-03 10:03      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    659    658   1334    2461     1342     1894      _       
      Shortspine THDS     36    255    340    631     955      555      760      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    154    951    618   1723    6500     1226     1519      _       
           Dover sole    381   2812   2508   5701    7440     4826     6298     32     16
              Petrale    427    774    281   1482    2762     1496     1797     80     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1859   1461    839   4159    7700     4295     4983     95     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              478    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    559    666    280   1505              960      960      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    145    169    279    593              375      696      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     92     92              104      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    156    156     294      142      189      _       

              Lingcod     41     63     41    145     651      172      205     21     11

       Widow Rockfish      7      9      5     21     832       56      273      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     40      7     49     172      100      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      5      4      _      9      44       41       48      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      1      _      1      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     24     82      _    106     377      130      146      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    143     54      1    198    3146      918     1271     59    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    132     54    186              216      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     14     12     12     38               56       61      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     45     67     14    126              126      145      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     24      2     26               40       48      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     20      1     21               43       55      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      7      7    2000      152      153      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     68     68     461       40       48      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     28     28      38       62       60      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     23     23      48       58       58      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _      21                        _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      7      7               25       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    280    280              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  17007  36578   1741  55326  148200    45708    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  30SEP  30SEP  30SEP

       HARD DATA THRU  SEP03  SEP03  AUG03                                   SEP03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 17-OCT-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.