Effects of lunar cycles on the activity patterns and depth use of a temperate sport fish, the largemouth bass, <i>Micropterus salmoides</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The behaviour of free‐swimming, telemetered, adult largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides (L.), was monitored using a whole lake, three‐dimensional acoustic telemetry array to test the hypothesis that fish activity and depth distribution are influenced by lunar phase. The percent of lunar face shining and whether the moon was waxing or waning were significant determinants of swimming activity and depth distribution during most of the lunar cycles evaluated, although these patterns were not consistent across the year. In spring and summer, daily depth distribution followed a pattern in which the fish inhabited greater depths on the 26–50% and 51–75% waxing moon. Fish daily movement distances were five times greater during spring and summer than in winter, but no repeatable patterns were noted in relation to lunar periodicity. This research suggests that solunar tables frequently consulted by recreational anglers may have little predictive value for identifying peak fishing time.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".