PacFIN 05-JAN-04 08:11      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    762   1519    2461     1894     1894      _       
      Shortspine THDS     44    303    417    764     955      760      760      6      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    191   1245    759   2195    6500     1522     1522      _       
           Dover sole    469   3574   3139   7182    7440     6299     6299     33     16
              Petrale    531   1019    363   1913    2762     1797     1797     84     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1961   1713   1053   4727    7700     4983     4983    101     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              570    436
   NTW Primary Sable*    602    669    199   1470              960      960      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    250    235    450    935              696      696      _       

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

              Lingcod     44     69     50    163     651      205      205     22     11

       Widow Rockfish      9      9      5     23     832      274      274      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     65      9     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)     30     99      _    129     377      148      148      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    252     55      1    308    3146     1273     1273    255    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _    133     61    194              259      259      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     15     12     12     39               62       62      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     56     92     18    166              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)      _      _     92     92     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       14       14      _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     10     10               26       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    314    314              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  27DEC  27DEC  27DEC

       HARD DATA THRU  OCT03  NOV03  OCT03                                   OCT03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 29-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.