PacFIN 21-JAN-04 08:56      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    776   1533    2461     1894     1894      _       
      Shortspine THDS     44    304    445    793     955      760      760      6      5
  TWL Sable (V&C&E&M)    189   1263    769   2221    6500     1522     1522      _       
           Dover sole    468   3621   3227   7316    7440     6299     6299     33     16
              Petrale    537   1100    388   2025    2762     1797     1797     84     21
   Remaining Flatfish   1956   1725   1095   4776    7700     4983     4983    101     64

     Tribal Sablefish      _      _      _      _                              580    436
   NTW Primary Sable*    602    669    199   1470              960      960      _       
       NTW DTL Sable*    250    239    440    929              696      696      _       

      CP NTW Sabl Pri      _      _      _      _                                _       
      CP NTW Sabl DTL      _      _    122    122              141      141      _       
 Sablefish Conception      _      _    204    204     294      190      190      _       

              Lingcod     43     69     52    164     651      205      205     22     11

       Widow Rockfish     13      9      5     27     832      274      274      _     13
  Darkblotched RCKFSH      2     66     10     78     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)     31     99      _    130     377      148      148      _       
   Yellowtail (V&C&E)    340     55      1    396    3146     1273     1273    258    259
 Near-shore RF, North      _     18      8     26               50       50      _       
 Black Rockfish, Nor.      _    116     54    170              209      209      _       
 Shelf rockfish, Nor.     16     12     12     40               62       62      _       
 Slope rockfish, Nor.     56     93     18    167              147      147      _       
      Cabezon (V&C&E)      _     27      2     29               49       49      _       
 Kelp Greenling, Nor.      _     20      1     21               56       56      _       
  (V&C&E) UNSP RCKFSH      _      _      _      _                                _       

 TWL Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _               18       18      _       
 NTW Bocaccio (MT&CP)      _      _      _      _                3        3      _       
  Chilipepper (MT&CP)      _      _     10     10    2000      154      154      _       
 Splitnose RF (MT&CP)      _      _     95     95     461       48       48      _       
 N-S RF: Shallow, So.      _      _     36     36      38       62       62      _       
    N-S RF: Deep, So.      _      _     30     30      48       49       49      _       
  Black Rockfish, So.      _      _      4      4                9        9      _       
 CA Scorpionfish, So.      _      _      5      5      21       14       14      _       
  Shelf rockfish, So.      _      _     11     11               26       26      _       
  Slope rockfish, So.      _      _    344    344              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      _       
       Tribal Whiting      _      _      _      _                             4079       

      *Estimates Thru  31DEC  31DEC  31DEC

       HARD DATA THRU  NOV03  DEC03  NOV03                                   NOV03

  Hard data for this report was extracted from the PacFIN database on 15-JAN-2004.

  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 2004 is 7,510 metric tons for the area North of Conception 
  and 276 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.