Scale-dependent movements and protection of female blue crabs (<i>Callinectes sapidus</i>)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Little is known about the migration of female crabs (Callinectes sapidus) to spawning grounds, or how effectively they are protected by North Carolina's “spawning sanctuaries.” To investigate migration, we tagged and released a total of 2700 mature female crabs in the fall of 2001 and the summer and fall of 2002 in the three tributaries of Pamlico Sound. Tag returns indicate that females begin migration during September to November and that they probably do not complete it until the next spring. To assess site fidelity and protection of females by spawning sanctuaries, 398 tagged adult females were released in or near sanctuaries at Ocracoke and Hatteras inlets. Most recaptures occurred near the barrier islands (Outer Banks), suggesting that mobility declines once females reach euhaline waters, but recapture data also showed that crabs move over scales larger than sanctuaries and derive only temporary protection by entering sanctuaries. Ovigerous females fitted with ultrasonic pingers were tracked after release inside the boundary of Ocracoke spawning sanctuary. Crabs with orange (new) egg masses meandered over small areas, but those with eggs approaching hatching moved directly seaward. Apparently spawning sanctuaries must be large to be effective; where this is not practical (as in North Carolina), other strategies should be considered.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".