PacFIN 14-NOV-03 15:40      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     27    703    738   1468    2461     1634     1895      _       
      Shortspine THDS     41    281    368    690     955      656      760      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    173   1084    693   1950    6500     1387     1521      _       
           Dover sole    428   3170   2848   6446    7440     5597     6299     32     16
              Petrale    432    842    309   1583    2762     1599     1797     83     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1900   1609    894   4403    7700     4675     4983     99     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              535    436
   NTW Primary Sable*    675    669    288   1632              960      960      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    156    214    341    711              600      697      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     98     98              114      141      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    162    162     294      158      190      _       

              Lingcod     43     68     46    157     651      200      205     22     11

       Widow Rockfish      7      9      5     21     832       56      274      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     51      8     61     172      100      103      _      1
      Canary rockfish      5      4      _      9      44       45       48      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      1      1      _      2      22        6        6      _      2
          POP (V&C&E)     27     89      _    116     377      139      148      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    143     55      1    199    3146      950     1273    102    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    133     62    195              241      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     14     12     12     38               60       62      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     51     79     16    146              138      147      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     26      2     28               45       49      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     20      1     21               49       56      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      9      9    2000      154      154      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     74     74     461       43       48      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     30     30      38       62       62      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     27     27      48       58       59      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      5      5      21                        _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      7      7               25       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    303    303              413      457      _       
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _     36     36               48       48      _       
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      4      4                6        6      _       
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               18       19      _       

      Pacific Whiting  17014  36580   1741  55335  148200    45708    45708      _       

      *Estimates Thru  31OCT  31OCT  31OCT

       HARD DATA THRU  SEP03  OCT03  AUG03                                   SEP03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 13-NOV-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.