PacFIN 10-OCT-03 11:49      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 OCT THRU DEC  Tribal Tribal
       Longspine THDS     23    644    695   1362    2461     1634     1894      _       
      Shortspine THDS     39    261    347    647     955      656      760      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    152    947    650   1749    6500     1387     1519      _       
           Dover sole    390   2776   2603   5769    7440     5597     6298     25     16
              Petrale    403    785    281   1469    2762     1599     1797     65     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1839   1509    822   4170    7700     4675     4983     84     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              416    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    603    670    286   1559              960      960      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    149    185    296    630              600      696      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     86     86              114      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    162    162     294      158      189      _       

              Lingcod     41     63     39    143     651      200      205     19     11

       Widow Rockfish      5     10      5     20     832       56      273      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     38      6     46     172      100      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      4      3      _      7      44       45       48      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      _      _      _      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     25     82      _    107     377      139      146      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    101     53      1    155    3146      950     1271     18    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    129     55    184              241      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     11     11     12     34               60       61      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     47     66     17    130              138      145      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     25      2     27               45       48      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     20      1     21               49       55      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      7      7    2000      154      153      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     68     68     461       43       48      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     27     27      38       62       60      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     21     21      48       58       58      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      _      _      21                        _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      7      7               25       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    282    282              413      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  15246  36578   1741  53565  148200    45708    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  04OCT  04OCT  04OCT

       HARD DATA THRU  AUG03  AUG03  JUL03                                   AUG03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 07-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.