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Aboriginal whale watching

2008· book-chapter· en· W2281224052 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Heather Zeppel

Bibliographic record

VenueResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) · 2008
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicMarine animal studies overview
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWhaleBeluga WhaleCoveWhalingGeographyFisheryBayFirst nationArcticArchaeologyOceanographyIndigenousEcology
DOInot available

Abstract

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[Extract] There are several aboriginal-owned whale-watching ventures in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These include viewing orca (killer whale) with Village Island Tours (Telegraph Cove, BC), operated since 1989 by Tom Sewid, a Kwakwak'awakw First Nations man. His boat, painted with a First Nations Orca design, is named Gla-Lis (finning whale). The Kwakwak'awakw people believe that chiefs are reborn as killer whales. On the west coast of Vancouver Island, other First Nation groups operate boat tours viewing orca and grey whales. In Quebec, eastern Canada, the Essipit-Montagnais First Nation have run whale-watching boat tours on the St Lawrence River estuary since 1994; they use zodiac boats to view common and blue finback whales. The company employs six full-time staff and purchased a new whale watch vessel in 1999 with funds from Aboriginal Business Canada. Whale watching provides 60% of their income. In Nunavut, an Inuit territory in Arctic Canada, some Inuit people run kayak trips at Kugaarak (Pelly Bay) and Pond Inlet to watch narwhals, beluga whales and bowhead whales (all still hunted by the Inuit).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.611
Threshold uncertainty score0.783

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.004
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0840.016

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.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.209 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2008
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