A RETROSPECTIVE: THREE QUARTERS OF A CENTURY AT THE HALIFAX FISHERIES RESEARCH LABORATORY
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Abstract
In 1925 a Fisheries Technological Program was begun in temporary quarters on the Halifax waterfront to provide scientific research and technical assistance to improve the handling, processing and quality of fisheries products in Atlantic Canada. From that date through to 1979 (with a move to permanent buildings next door) studies on fish processing (smoking, drying, fresh and frozen storage, protein stability, marine oils, enzymatic and bacterial spoilage and grading systems among others) were conducted and the results transferred to industry, government and international agencies with a high degree of success and benefits. After it was apparent that product quality was affected by the condition of fish prior to harvest, more effort was devoted to physiological studies of live fish. In the 1960s studies concerning live lobster storage and latterly technical support for developing aquaculture ventures, i.e. health studies, nutritional requirements, environmental needs and physical structures, were added. Following the termination of the technological program in 1979 the buildings were used to accommodate elements of the Fisheries Resource Branchuntil theY'could be re-Iocated in 1997. This retrospective traces the reasons for programs and offers brief sketches of the studies and their application.En 1925, un programme d'etudes technologiques sur les peches voyait Ie jour dans des locaux provisoires situes sur Ie front de mer d'Halifax (il a em menage dans un edifice permanent tout pres des locaux originaux par la suite). Le but du programme etait d'assurer une aide scientifique et technique afin d'ameliorer la manutention, la transformation, et la qualite des produits de la peche au Canada Atlantique. De 1925 jusqu'en 1979, Ie programme n'a jamais cesse ses activites. On y a etudie la transformation du poisson (fumage, sechage, entreposage de produits frais ou congeles, stabilite des protei.nes, huiles marines, deteriorationdes produits provoquee par des enzymes ou des bacteries et systemes de classement, entre autres choses), et on a transmis les resultats de ces etudes a I'industrie, aux gouvemements et aux agences internationales qui en ont retire de nombreux avantages; Lorsqu'il est devenu evident que la qualite du produit est egalcment influencec par I'etat du poisson avant la recolte, on a commencea consacrer davantage d'efforts aux etudes physiologiques du poisson vivant. Au cours des annees 1960, on a ajoute des etudes sur les conditions d'enti-eposage du homard vivant et, plus recemment,on s'est interesse aux besoins de l'industrie aquacole, a savoir l'etat de sante des poissons d'elevage, leurs besoins nutritifs, leurs besoins lies au milieu et les structures physiques. Quand le programme d'etudes technologiques a pris fin en 1979, les edifices ont ete utilises par certaines composantes de la Direction des ressources halieutiques jusqu 'a ce qu'elles amenagent dans d'autres locaux en 1997. Voici une retrospective de la raison d'etre des programmes,des etudes qui ont ete menees et de leurs applications.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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".