GeneWatch UK comments on: Draft Environmental Assessment and Preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact Concerning a Genetically Engineered Atlantic Salmon; Availability
Bibliographic record
Abstract
GeneWatch UK is a not-for-profit organisation based in the United Kingdom. Our aim is to ensure that genetic science and technologies are used in the public interest. We welcome the opportunity to respond to this consultation. Wild Atlantic salmon are found in the North Atlantic on both European (Portugal to Russia) and North American (Cape Cod to Labrador) sides, including around North Atlantic islands such as the UK. The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salmar) is on the Oslo and Paris Convention (OSPAR) List of Threatened and/or Declining Species and Habitats (covering the North-East Atlantic region) and is also listed in Annexes II and V of the European Union’s Habitats Directive as a species of European importance. The issue of the environmental impacts which may be caused by the approval of the application is therefore a matter of international importance. This is especially the case in relation to the failure to secure shipments of GE eyed-eggs, which might lead to widespread dispersal of such eggs in the environment, and the failure to properly describe or account for the United States ’ and Canada’s obligations under the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO). GeneWatch UK disagrees with the FDA’s proposal to issue a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) in response to AquaBounty’s application, on the following grounds:
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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 | 0.008 | 0.050 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.068 | 0.022 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.046 | 0.037 |
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".