PacFIN 12-NOV-03 11:36      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 NOV THRU DEC  Tribal Tribal
       Longspine THDS     27    686    735   1448    2461     1850     1895      _       
      Shortspine THDS     41    272    368    681     955      741      760      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    173   1040    690   1903    6500     1497     1521      _       
           Dover sole    428   3079   2835   6342    7440     6121     6299     32     16
              Petrale    432    838    306   1576    2762     1697     1797     83     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1902   1598    893   4393    7700     4853     4983     99     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              535    436
   NTW Primary Sable*    675    692    288   1655              960      960      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    157    216    338    711              676      697      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _     98     98              127      141      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    162    162     294      175      190      _       

              Lingcod     43     68     45    156     651      203      205     22     11

       Widow Rockfish      7      9      5     21     832      204      274      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     48      8     58     172      102      103      _      1
      Canary rockfish      5      4      _      9      44       47       48      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      1      1      _      2      22        6        6      _      2
          POP (V&C&E)     27     85      _    112     377      143      148      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    143     54      1    198    3146     1143     1273    102    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    139     62    201              255      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     14     13     12     39               61       62      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     51     72     16    139              143      147      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     27      2     29               47       49      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     20      1     21               54       56      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      9      9    2000      154      154      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     74     74     461       48       48      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     30     30      38       62       62      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     26     26      48       59       59      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      5      5      21                        _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _      7      7               26       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    302    302              429      457      _       
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _     36     36               48       48      _       
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      4      4                6        6      _       
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               19       19      _       

      Pacific Whiting  17014  36580   1741  55335  148200    45708    45708      _       

      *Estimates Thru  01NOV  31OCT  31OCT

       HARD DATA THRU  SEP03  SEP03  AUG03                                   SEP03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 05-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.