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Local Food Production—Why Aquaculture Makes Sense

2017· article· en· W2619422155 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Michael Rust

Bibliographic record

VenueWestern CEDAR (Western Washington University) · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicFisheries and Aquaculture Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProduction (economics)Food processingAquacultureBusinessNatural resource economicsEnvironmental scienceFisheryEconomicsFish <Actinopterygii>Food scienceBiology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Aquaculture is likely to supply most of the projected increased need for seafood over the next few decades. With available land and freshwater becoming scarce, marine aquaculture (finfish, shellfish, and seaweeds) will be an increasingly important contributor to the world’s future food supply. Aquaculture is well established in many countries and continues to grow worldwide. Aquaculture creates jobs and supports working waterfronts. Aquaculture helps to maintain working waterfronts by relying on common infrastructure (docks, boats, processing facilities) and supports industries throughout the seafood supply chain such as equipment, supplies, feeds, processing, wholesaling, retailing, and food services. Aquaculture is one of the most resource-efficient ways to produce protein. Marine aquaculture is a sustainable method to produce food (relative to beef and pork production) from the standpoint of resource efficiency (e.g., use of water, land, feed, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions) and in terms of environmental effects. Research and data show that aquaculture is sustainable if properly managed. U.S. and Canadian marine aquaculture is characterized by smart design, evolved management practices, effective monitoring capabilities, and strict regulatory requirements. Much environmental concern expressed about marine aquaculture stems from outdated domestic practices that have since been improved or practices in other countries, which may have varying environmental protection standards. Growing seafood locally makes sense to maintain regulatory oversight and economic benefits, as well as reducing carbon footprint from storage and transport, and generating healthy high quality protein for our communities.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.069

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.007
Scholarly communication0.0060.006
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0210.004

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.181 · 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 designNot applicable
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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