PacFIN 17-OCT-03 10:37      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     19    666    681   1366    2461     1634     1894      _       
      Shortspine THDS     37    259    347    643     955      656      760      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    157    970    636   1763    6500     1387     1519      _       
           Dover sole    388   2854   2585   5827    7440     5597     6298     32     16
              Petrale    430    782    283   1495    2762     1599     1797     82     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1872   1510    847   4229    7700     4675     4983     96     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              483    435
   NTW Primary Sable*    629    666    280   1575              960      960      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    152    173    304    629              600      696      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     92     92              114      140      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    156    156     294      158      189      _       

              Lingcod     43     65     42    150     651      200      205     22     11

       Widow Rockfish      7      9      5     21     832       56      273      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     41      7     50     172      100      102      _      1
      Canary rockfish      5      4      _      9      44       45       48      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      _      1      _      1      22                        _       
          POP (V&C&E)     24     82      _    106     377      139      146      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    143     54      1    198    3146      950     1271     60    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    136     55    191              241      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     14     12     12     38               60       61      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     46     68     15    129              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)      _      _      8      8    2000      154      153      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     69     69     461       43       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.      _      _    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  17007  36578   1741  55326  148200    45708    45707      _       

      *Estimates Thru  11OCT  11OCT  11OCT

       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.