ICES-FAO Working Group on Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour (WGFTFB; outputs from 2024 meeting)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Working Group on Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour (WGFTFB) discusses and syn-thesizes recent research on topics related to fishing technology and fish behaviour in relation to commercial fishing and survey gears. The group provides guidance for management and indus-try, including, inter alia, gear selectivity, reducing the impacts of fishing on the environment, and innovative technologies for improving fishing and research operations. The working group is jointly supported by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which have fostered a fruitful work-ing relationship in an international forum. WGFTFB supports FAO members and other ICES working groups and workshops, facilitating the exchange of knowledge and promoting collab-oration, and providing expertise upon request on fishing technology and fish behaviour.The 2024 annual meeting of WGFTFB was hosted by the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Me-morial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada from 3-7 June. The 95 meeting participants convened daily in plenary to attend 15-minute scientific presentations (49 total) on the topics of: benthic interactions, energy use, selectivity, discard sur-vival, representative talks from the Topic Groups (ALDFG, Multi-Use, and Indicators), human behaviour, fish behaviour, innovative gear, and innovative gear as it pertains to whale interac-tions. In addition to oral presentations, posters were displayed for the duration of the meeting, and on Monday (June 3) afternoon authors stood by their posters to answer questions from meet-ing participants. During the meeting, it was decided that the next two meetings will take place from 15-20 May 2025 in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily (Italy) and in Cairns, Queensland, Australia in May 2026 (dates to be determined at 2025 meeting in Sicily). In addition, the first in-person meet-ing of the ICES Working Group on Size and Species Selection Experiments (WGSSSE), chaired by H. Einarsson (Iceland) and M. Pol (USA), was convened on June 2nd to coincide with the an-nual WGFTFB meeting given overlap in participation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
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 | 0.012 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.061 | 0.032 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".