In a Pinch: Snow Crab and the Politics of Crisis in Newfoundland
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Abstract
Drawing on historical sources and interviews, this paper discusses several key forces that have shaped the development of the snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) fishery in Newfoundland. Once commonly discarded as a pest, snow crab has emerged as the economic foundation of many rural coastal communities since the cod moratorium of the early 1990s. While this fishery has brought unprecedented prosperity to some commercial fishers, it has also been prone to significant price fluctuations and the benefits accruing from it have not been widely shared. Accordingly, it has also been marked by frequent and often bitter conflicts between different crab fishing fleet sectors and between crab fishers, processing companies, and processing plant workers. These tensions reflect fundamentally different visions of how to sustain the fishery into the future and which priorities should decide who benefits most from the crab resource. S’appuyant sur des sources historiques et des entrevues, ce document traite de plusieurs forces cles qui ont faconne l’elaboration de la peche des crabes des neiges (Chionoecetes opilio) a Terre-Neuve. Une fois mis au rebut couramment comme un ravageur, le crabe des neiges est apparu comme le fondement economique de nombreuses communautes rurales cotieres depuis le moratoire sur la morue du debut des annees 1990. Bien que cette peche ait apporte une prosperite sans precedent pour certains pecheurs commerciaux, elle a egalement subi a des fluctuations importantes de prix et les avantages en decoulant n’ont pas ete partages largement. En consequence, elle a egalement ete marquee par des conflits frequents et souvent amers entre les secteurs differents des flottes de peche et entre les pecheurs de crabe, les usines de transformation des aliments, et les travailleurs des ces usines de transformation. Ces tensions refletent des visions fondamentalement differentes sur la facon de soutenir la peche dans l’avenir et les priorites qui devraient decider qui profite le plus de la ressource en crabe.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".