Juvenile Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) and their interactions with ecosystem components in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) are an important prey species for a variety of predators as well as important to First Nations communities and to the commercial fishing industry. The recruitment of Pacific Herring varies substantially on an annual basis and can represent a large proportion of the adult population biomass, adding uncertainty to population estimates. A leading indicator to forecast their recruitment prior to their harvest would be helpful to understand year class strength. British Columbia’s Strait of Georgia juvenile herring and nearshore pelagic ecosystem survey has collected data from ten core transects in September-October since 1992. This data may help improve the understanding of factors that influence herring recruitment and their availability to their predators, such as Chinook and Coho Salmon. An objective of this study was to update the survey time series of the relative biomass and abundance (and associated variance) of age-0 herring. Results indicate that age-0 herring abundance varies interannually with high abundances in recent, even years and there was an increasing trend in fish condition during 1997-2010. Preliminary results indicate age-0 herring biomass may be a leading indicator of recruitment to the adult herring spawning population and to Chinook Salmon survival. We also explore potential ecological and trophodynamic interactions between herring and ecosystem components, zooplankton abundance, and environmental variability. Investigating the dynamics of ecological linkages among pelagic species will improve our understanding of valuable species in BC’s marine ecosystems.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".