PacFIN 12-DEC-03 15:29      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 DEC THRU DEC  Tribal Tribal
       Longspine THDS     30    727    778   1535    2461     1895     1895      _       
      Shortspine THDS     43    301    410    754     955      760      760      5      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    189   1226    750   2165    6500     1521     1521      _       
           Dover sole    463   3507   3149   7119    7440     6299     6299     32     16
              Petrale    483    949    370   1802    2762     1797     1797     83     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1952   1697    987   4636    7700     4983     4983     99     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              546    436
   NTW Primary Sable*    602    669    194   1465              960      960      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    244    235    408    887              697      697      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _    106    106              141      141      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    196    196     294      190      190      _       

              Lingcod     44     69     49    162     651      205      205     22     11

       Widow Rockfish      9      9      5     23     832      274      274      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     64     10     76     172      103      103      _      1
      Canary rockfish      5      4      1     10      44       48       48      1      3

  Yelloweye (V&C&E&M)      1      1      _      2      22        6        6      _      2
          POP (V&C&E)     29     98      _    127     377      148      148      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    252     55      1    308    3146     1273     1273    167    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    133     64    197              259      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     15     12     11     38               62       62      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     56     90     17    163              147      147      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     27      2     29               49       49      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     20      1     21               56       56      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _      8      8    2000      154      154      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     85     85     461       48       48      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     36     36      38       62       62      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     32     32      48       59       59      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      5      5      21                        _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     10     10               26       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    317    317              457      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  06DEC  29NOV  06DEC

       HARD DATA THRU  OCT03  NOV03  SEP03                                   OCT03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 12-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.