Use of sterile triploid Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) for aquaculture in New Brunswick, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Induced triploidy is the only effective method currently available for mass production of reproductively sterile salmonids for aquaculture. Repeated studies at the Atlantic Salmon Federation's hatchery (St Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada) have shown only minor differences between triploids and diploids in survival to S1 smolt age (15 months), percentage of the population which became S1 smolts, and mean S1 smolt size. However, a similar study at a commercial hatchery was terminated because of exceptionally high mortality of triploids prior to the start of feeding. Marine growout trials in sea cages showed that triploids grew well in seawater, but had reduced survival rates (leading to a 5–15% reduction in yield at harvest) and high rates of jaw abnormalities. Similar results have been reported elsewhere. Although induced triploidy can be used effectively as a management tool to ensure lack of reproduction, there is at present little support of the aquaculture industry to switch to their large-scale use. In light of fundamental biological differences, it is perhaps naïve to expect triploids to perform as well as diploids using standard culture methods. Triploids should be treated as a new “species” for aquaculture development, beginning with research to determine their optimum rearing requirements.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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.
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".