Will Indigenous co-management improve the outcome of the Gilbert Bay, Labrador MPA: Summary of the past and hopes for the future
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Abstract
Local residents identified Atlantic cod ( Gadus morhua ) in Gilbert Bay, Labrador as “bay-cod”, and that they were susceptible to overfishing when commercial fishing resumed along the Labrador coast in 1998 after a 6-year northern cod fishery moratorium. Through collaborative efforts among stakeholders, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) established the Gilbert Bay Marine Protected Area (MPA) in 2005 to protect this unique population of Atlantic cod. The important genetic diversity that the Gilbert Bay cod population provides to Atlantic cod at the species level is now well established, and the decision to protect this population within an MPA was a forward-looking decision in a climate-changing world. Unfortunately, despite protection, the cod population has significantly declined since establishment of the MPA. This has been accompanied by waning local support for the MPA. Since the MPA was established changes have occurred in the Gilbert Bay area, including the relocation of a fishing community located on the MPA boundary and reopening of the commercial northern cod fishery, that could influence the protected Atlantic cod population. Unfortunately, changes aimed at sustaining and rebuilding the MPA’s bay-cod population have not been part of fishery management actions. Ongoing socio-ecological changes however, may represent opportunities to rebuild the cod population as well as increase MPA support. The NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC) is currently working with DFO towards a co-management arrangement as part of the MPA management plan (2023–2025), and now co-chairs with DFO the MPA advisory committee. This is an important change, and local and/or Indigenous input in the context of shared management responsibility could lead to a rebuilding of the cod population and renewed public support. In this paper we briefly review (1) the history of the Gilbert Bay MPA in the context of north Atlantic cod, (2) scientific research and monitoring that measured abundance declines of Gilbert Bay cod, (3) causes of this decline, (4) the advice emanating from research provided to MPA managers, and the lack of management actions. We then consider (5) where Indigenous co-management may play an important role in helping to implement changes. Finally, we discuss forthcoming changes in the management structure of the MPA which could initiate rebuilding of the cod population as a social, ecological and economic asset.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 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 | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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