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Runoff from potato farms blamed for fish kills on Canadian Island

2007· article· en· W1757400284 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Kathy Birtis

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Soil and Water Conservation · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicSoil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFish killFish <Actinopterygii>FisheryTroutGeographyRainbow troutSurface runoffAgricultureArchaeologyEcologyBiology

Abstract

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With thousands of dead fish—including salmon, speckled trout, and rainbow trout—two fish kills in Prince Edward Island's Dunk and Tryon Rivers in the summer of 2007 serve as a wakeup call for better management of agricultural land in a Canadian province where potatoes are the largest crop. Fish kills are not new to this small, 150-mile-long island nestled between the Northumberland Strait and the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Canada's east coast. Since 1994 there have been 29 reported fish kills in Prince Edward Island's streams and rivers. All are attributed to agricultural runoff. Todd Dupuis, director of regional programs for the Atlantic Salmon Federation, talks about the lack of implementation of the Prince Edward Island Environmental Farm Plan and the legislated 10-meter (30-foot) buffer zones. “It's true a large proportion of farmers have gone through the plan, but there is no compulsory need to implement it,” says Dupuis. Prince Edward Island Environment Minister George Webster, who is a potato farmer in the Maple Plains area, says there are two parts to the buffer zone legislation. One part is enforced, and in the other …

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.105

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.190 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2007
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