PacFIN 17-DEC-03 09:20      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     30    727    755   1512    2461     1850     1895      _       
      Shortspine THDS     43    301    415    759     955      741      760      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    184   1226    751   2161    6500     1497     1521      _       
           Dover sole    454   3507   3101   7062    7440     6121     6299     32     16
              Petrale    466    949    347   1762    2762     1697     1797     83     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1946   1697   1046   4689    7700     4853     4983     99     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              546    436
   NTW Primary Sable*    602    669    199   1470              960      960      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    244    235    439    918              676      697      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _    111    111              127      141      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    177    177     294      175      190      _       

              Lingcod     44     69     50    163     651      203      205     22     11

       Widow Rockfish      9      9      5     23     832      204      274      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     64      9     75     172      102      103      _      1
      Canary rockfish      5      4      1     10      44       47       48      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      1      1      _      2      22        6        6      _      2
          POP (V&C&E)     29     98      _    127     377      143      148      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    252     55      1    308    3146     1143     1273    167    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    133     61    194              255      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     15     12     12     39               61       62      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     56     90     18    164              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)      _      _      8      8    2000      154      154      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     88     88     461       48       48      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     36     36      38       62       62      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     34     34      48       59       59      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      5      5      21                        _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     10     10               26       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    312    312              429      457      _       
      Cabezon (MT&CP)      _      _     38     38               48       48      _       
  Kelp Greenling, So.      _      _      4      4                6        6      _       
  (MT&CP) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      1      1               19       19      _       

      Pacific Whiting  17013  36581   1741  55335  148200    45708    45708      _       

      *Estimates Thru  29NOV  29NOV  30NOV

       HARD DATA THRU  OCT03  NOV03  OCT03                                   OCT03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 16-DEC-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.