Jo Byrne, Beyond Trawlertown: Memory, Life and Legacy in the Wake of the Cod Wars by Louis Arthur Norton
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Abstract
In preparing to read this engaging book, one might order a serving of fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, sprinkled with malt vinegar and perhaps, a pint of British ale, while wearing a black mourning armband.Beyond Trawlertown (the city of Hull, UK) principally centres on the years after 1976, the end of the last Cod War, but casts a much broader timeline.The early chapters offer a glimpse of the fishing industry in the 1950s and 60s that provides a baseline for understanding the subsequent changes.The emergence of the freezer fleet in the late 1960s technologically disrupted established patterns in the trawling industry portending the crisis to come.It became a fleet with dual personalities and two cultural rhythms nodding to the past as it reconfigured for the future contraction and decline of the industry and the town immediately after the Cod Wars era.Beyond Trawlertown broadly focuses on an unforgiving, dangerous occupation, a seacoast town, technological advances in an industry, and the effect on men from several nations who competed for a rapidly dwindling resource.Of the twentieth century wars, the so-called Cod Wars may have had the lowest world profile, while portending the future without the shedding of blood.(There was only one confirmed fatality during the conflict: an Icelandic engineer accidentally killed while he was repairing damage to his Icelandic Coast Guard boat after a collision with a British naval frigate.)Jo Byrne's work is a multifaceted textbook of the history and politics of the UK fishing industry, a philosophical essay, and a warning to other prominent fishing ports around the world.Trawler fishing as first described was a labour-intensive occupation.In this enterprise, a cone shaped net is towed across the bottom of the seabed channeling fish into its point or cone.The trawl-net, usually full of catch, is then lifted onboard.The working vessels had relatively small crews that voyaged for a 21-day trip, usually to the northeastern Atlantic.This routine produced a local work-life-rhythm shaped by life at sea, but by also the surrounding district that supported the fishermen and their families.The homelife of the trawlermen was compressed into three days of both relative frenzy and celebration before the fishermen resumed what seemed like their perpetual hunt for cod.In time, the fish became depleted on the nearby grounds and it became necessary to go a great deal further afield to get an adequate catch.Larger boats and, consequently, larger crews were needed to get to where the
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.004 |
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