Gutting Canada's Fisheries Act: No Fishery, No Fish Habitat Protection
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Revisions to Canada's national fisheries legislation have eviscerated the country's ability and responsibility to protect most fish habitat. Changes to the Fisheries Act, passed by Parliament in 2012 and supported by new regulations in 2013, stipulate that habitat will now be protected only for fish that are considered part of a fishery or that support a fishery. The habitats of most freshwater fish species in Canada, including the majority of threatened and endangered fishes, will no longer be protected. Contrary to responsible management practices for the protection of native fishes, the act now inadvertently prioritizes habitat protection for some nonnative species—even hatchery-produced hybrids—as long as they are part of a fishery. Changes to the Fisheries Act were not supported by scientific advice (contrary to government policy) and are inconsistent with an ecosystem-based approach to management. Politically motivated dismantling of habitat protection provisions in the Fisheries Act erases 40 years of enlightened and responsible legislation and diminishes Canada's ability to fulfill its national and international obligations to protect, conserve, and sustainably use aquatic biodiversity. RESUMEN Las revisiones de la legislación pesquera de Canadá han desentrañado la habilidad y responsabilidad del país para proteger la mayor parte de los hábitats para peces. Los cambios al Acta Pesquera canadiense, aprobados por el parlamento en 2012 y apoyados por nuevas regulaciones establecidas en 2013, señalan que se protegerá el hábitat sólo de aquellas especies de peces que sean parte u objetivo de una pesquería. Los hábitats del grueso de las especies de peces de agua dulce de Canadá, incluyendo gran parte de los peces amenazados y en peligro, ya no estarán protegidos. En oposición a las prácticas de manejo responsable para la protección de especies nativas, inadvertidamente el acta prioriza la protección del hábitat de algunas especies de peces no nativas e incluso de especies híbridas—producidas en criaderos—en tanto éstas formen parte de una pesquería. Los cambios al acta pesquera no fueron apoyados por la información científica (contrario a la política de gobierno) y éstos son inconsistentes con el enfoque de manejo de pesquerías basado en el ecosistema. Motivado por intereses políticos, el retiro de la protección del hábitat estipulado en dicha Acta Pesquera, elimina 40 años de legislación responsable y merma la habilidad de Canadá de cumplimentar sus obligaciones nacionales e internacionales de proteger, conservar y utilizar de forma sostenible su biodiversidad acuática.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.006 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".