{ "model": { "rank": 5841, "code": "thing-q202406", "model_id": "vr.tr.haddock", "name": "haddock", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise haddock, assess an individual fish's biological state and context, and determine which observations or interventions are justified.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q202406/", "tier": 2, "score": 64, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "haddock as food" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 64, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.haddock", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q202406", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202406", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:38:34Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.01044208, "turns": 1, "seconds": 157.8, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 104, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b37-6f7f-7950-b4f8-1166b41d63e2\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: haddock\nRegistry id: vr.tr.haddock\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy m" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q202406", "registryId": "vr.tr.haddock", "name": "haddock", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q202406/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.haddock", "name": "haddock", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise haddock, assess an individual fish's biological state and context, and determine which observations or interventions are justified.", "definition": "A cold-water demersal gadid, Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758), of the North Atlantic and adjacent shelf seas, recognised in the round by a black lateral line and a dark scapular blotch above the pectoral fin, and taken as a lean whitefish in mixed-groundfish fisheries.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, life stage, condition, environmental context and intervention-relevant evidence of haddock individuals under vr.tr.haddock in PHY / PHY.LIV, provisionally interpreting the undefined registry entry as Melanogrammus aeglefinus; populations, fisheries and derived products are linked neighbouring entities.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of intact, immature or damaged specimens attributed to haddock", "Individual size, age evidence, life stage and reproductive condition", "Observed habitat, movement and feeding context", "Vitality, injuries and evidence of physiological disturbance", "Capture history, sampling suitability and constraints on handling or retention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Population abundance, recruitment forecasts and stock assessment models", "Fishing vessels, gear design and fishing operations", "Marine habitat systems and food webs as independent entities", "Fishery legislation, quotas and permits as authoritative rule systems", "Processed seafood products, recipes, commercial lots and food-safety certification" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Inspect the flank for an oval dark shoulder blotch between the lateral line and pectoral fin; record whether the relevant skin is actually visible. [FAO identification account](https://www.fao.org/4/x5939e/x5939e01.htm)", "Check for a black lateral line together with the shoulder blotch when separating a suspected haddock from similar cod-family fish. [FAO identification account](https://www.fao.org/4/x5939e/x5939e01.htm)", "Check the combined profile of three dorsal fins, a high pointed first dorsal fin, two anal fins, a small chin barbel and a shorter lower jaw; fin count alone is insufficient. [FAO identification account](https://www.fao.org/4/x5939e/x5939e01.htm)", "Treat an egg identification as unresolved when based only on resemblance: haddock and cod eggs are not readily distinguished visually. [FAO life-history account](https://www.fao.org/4/x5939e/x5939e01.htm)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Haddock identification assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported | provisional | disputed | excluded | unassessed; evidence and method attached", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a common name or incomplete photograph from becoming a definitive species assignment." }, { "name": "Diagnostic character observations", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Shoulder blotch, lateral-line colour, dorsal-fin profile, jaw relationship and chin barbel; each observed | absent | obscured | not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Separates conflicting anatomy from characters that could not be inspected." }, { "name": "Body length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm; total, fork or standard length explicitly identified", "why_it_matters": "Supports growth comparisons and evaluation against the measurement convention required by a linked rule." }, { "name": "Body mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g; whole, gutted or otherwise altered specimen recorded", "why_it_matters": "Makes size and condition comparisons interpretable." }, { "name": "Developmental stage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "egg | larva | juvenile | adult | unresolved; staging method attached", "why_it_matters": "Determines which identification features and habitat expectations are appropriate." }, { "name": "Age estimate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "days or years; method, uncertainty and reference population attached", "why_it_matters": "Avoids treating body length as a direct measurement of age." }, { "name": "Reproductive condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Sex and maturity stage under a named assessment scheme, including unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes reproductive state from assumptions based on size or season." }, { "name": "Observation environment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Time-stamped location and habitat observation, including position uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Connects the fish to environmental evidence without asserting stock membership." }, { "name": "Depth and bottom association", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m below surface and, when known, m above seabed; measured or estimated", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of habitat use and capture-related pressure change." }, { "name": "Vitality and injury assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "alive | dead | uncertain; ventilation, equilibrium, responsiveness and injuries recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Provides observable evidence for handling decisions without equating movement with recovery." }, { "name": "Stock assignment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Candidate stock or management unit, assignment method, confidence and date; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Allows relevant external assessments and rules to be consulted without deriving population identity from appearance." }, { "name": "Capture and handling exposure", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked event with gear, capture depth, retrieval duration, air exposure and handling history where known", "why_it_matters": "Makes observed damage and subsequent intervention decisions traceable." } ], "affordances": [ "Inspect and document diagnostic characters, then support, reject or defer a haddock identification.", "Measure a specimen and assess developmental or reproductive stage using a stated protocol.", "Link habitat and capture observations to the individual while preserving uncertainty about stock membership.", "Assess vitality and injury to select an evidence-supported handling or release procedure.", "Select photographic, tissue or ageing evidence according to the identification need and authorised sampling protocol.", "Evaluate proposed capture, retention, release or sampling against current external rules and record the decision basis." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "fao-gadiforms-1990", "title": "FAO Species Catalogue, Vol. 10. Gadiform fishes of the world (Order Gadiformes): an annotated and illustrated catalogue", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Species identity, diagnostic characters, distribution, and the placement of haddock as the sole species of Melanogrammus." }, { "id": "fishbase-m-aeglefinus", "title": "Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Haddock)", "url": "https://www.fishbase.org/summary/Melanogrammus-aeglefinus.html", "what_it_supports": "Morphology, size and depth ranges, habitat, and the FAO 3-alpha code HAD.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "ices-haddock-advice", "title": "ICES Advice on fishing opportunities, catch, and effort: haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) stocks", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "The stock units managers actually use (North Sea, NE Arctic, Iceland, Rockall, and others) and that catch is regulated by TAC rather than a single pan-Atlantic quota." }, { "id": "noaa-haddock", "title": "Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) species profile", "url": "https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/haddock", "what_it_supports": "Georges Bank versus Gulf of Maine management units, U.S. commercial and recreational use, and rebuilding history after the 1990s collapse.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "haddock-recognition", "name": "Haddock recognition", "description": "Evidence that the observed organism belongs to the haddock registry entry.", "rationale": "A haddock decision must survive confusion with similar fish and loss of visible diagnostic features.", "layers": [ { "id": "external-character-assessment", "name": "External character assessment", "description": "Inspect the diagnostic combination on the actual specimen.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-combination", "name": "Diagnostic combination", "description": "Record each identifying character, its visibility and whether the combined observations support haddock.", "questions": [ { "text": "What was observed at the shoulder blotch, lateral line, first dorsal fin, chin and jaws?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diagnostic-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternative identifications remain compatible with the visible characters?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-combination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identification-evidence-limits", "name": "Identification evidence limits", "description": "Handle early stages, damaged specimens and ambiguous labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-appropriate-confirmation", "name": "Stage-appropriate confirmation", "description": "Preserve the identification method and unresolved alternatives when external characters cannot establish species.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the specimen's developmental stage or damage prevent use of the external character combination?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stage-appropriate-confirmation-q01" }, { "text": "Which expert determination, voucher or validated laboratory result supports the assignment to Melanogrammus aeglefinus?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stage-appropriate-confirmation-q02" }, { "text": "What additional evidence would resolve the identification without unnecessary specimen damage?", "kind": "action", "id": "stage-appropriate-confirmation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-and-reproduction", "name": "Growth and reproduction", "description": "Individual development, body size and reproductive state.", "rationale": "Identification methods, biological comparisons and interventions depend on stage and condition rather than the species name alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "size-and-age-evidence", "name": "Size and age evidence", "description": "Separate measured dimensions from inferred developmental history.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-growth-observations", "name": "Comparable growth observations", "description": "Record length and mass conventions alongside developmental stage and independently supported age estimates.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the length and mass, and was the fish intact when measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-growth-observations-q01" }, { "text": "Which staging or ageing method was used, and what uncertainty and population assumptions accompany it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "comparable-growth-observations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-assessment", "name": "Reproductive assessment", "description": "Describe observed reproductive condition without universal maturity thresholds.", "findings": [ { "id": "maturity-and-spawning-evidence", "name": "Maturity and spawning evidence", "description": "Distinguish observed sex and maturity from seasonal or size-based expectations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What sex and maturity stage can be supported under the named examination scheme?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "maturity-and-spawning-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is a spawning or post-spawning assignment based on direct examination or only on a regional calendar?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "maturity-and-spawning-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Does the supported reproductive condition change the proposed handling or sampling procedure?", "kind": "action", "id": "maturity-and-spawning-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "habitat-and-stock-context", "name": "Habitat and stock context", "description": "The fish's observed marine setting and evidence for population-level links.", "rationale": "Local observations must support habitat interpretation while keeping geographic occurrence separate from stock assignment.", "layers": [ { "id": "occupied-water-and-seabed", "name": "Occupied water and seabed", "description": "Record the environmental setting actually associated with the observation.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-linked-habitat-observation", "name": "Stage-linked habitat observation", "description": "Associate developmental stage with depth, seabed proximity and measured water conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where and when was the fish observed, at what depth and distance above the seabed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-linked-habitat-observation-q01" }, { "text": "Which substrate and water-condition records were measured at the fish's location rather than inferred from a broad area?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stage-linked-habitat-observation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-assignment", "name": "Population assignment", "description": "Link the individual to candidate stocks or management areas with explicit limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-stock-link", "name": "Supported stock link", "description": "Keep administrative area membership distinct from evidence of biological stock membership.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which stock or management unit is proposed, and does that label describe a biological population or an administrative area?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-stock-link-q01" }, { "text": "What location, tagging, genetic or other evidence supports the assignment and its uncertainty?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-stock-link-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding-condition-and-vitality", "name": "Feeding condition and vitality", "description": "Evidence of nutritional condition, life status and physical impairment.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish observed poor condition from reproductive effects, capture damage and unsupported disease explanations.", "layers": [ { "id": "feeding-and-body-condition", "name": "Feeding and body condition", "description": "Interpret feeding evidence and body condition using suitable comparisons.", "findings": [ { "id": "nutritional-condition-evidence", "name": "Nutritional condition evidence", "description": "Record feeding observations and condition measures without diagnosing starvation from appearance alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What feeding behaviour, stomach contents or body-condition measurements were actually observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "nutritional-condition-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the comparison account for haddock size, reproductive state, season, locality and whole versus gutted mass?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "nutritional-condition-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "injury-and-functional-state", "name": "Injury and functional state", "description": "Assess observable function and damage independently of presumed cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "vitality-and-damage-record", "name": "Vitality and damage record", "description": "Document ventilation, equilibrium, responsiveness, wounds and visible abnormalities with observation times.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports the recorded life status and functional condition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "vitality-and-damage-record-q01" }, { "text": "Which abnormalities were present before handling, and which appeared after capture or examination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "vitality-and-damage-record-q02" }, { "text": "Which observations require specialist assessment before assigning a cause or selecting an intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "vitality-and-damage-record-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "capture-and-intervention-decisions", "name": "Capture and intervention decisions", "description": "Connect capture exposure, specimen condition and external authority to proposed actions.", "rationale": "Species identification alone cannot establish whether this haddock may be retained, released or sampled, or whether a procedure suits its condition.", "layers": [ { "id": "capture-exposure-and-response", "name": "Capture exposure and response", "description": "Use the capture history to interpret handling needs and outcome uncertainty.", "findings": [ { "id": "handling-procedure-fit", "name": "Handling procedure fit", "description": "Record relevant capture exposures and select an applicable haddock handling protocol with its evidence limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "What gear, capture depth, retrieval time, air exposure and crowding preceded this assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "handling-procedure-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which handling or release protocol applies to this fish's size, condition and capture circumstances?", "kind": "action", "id": "handling-procedure-fit-q02" }, { "text": "What follow-up observation distinguishes immediate departure from evidence of subsequent survival?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "handling-procedure-fit-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "action-eligibility-and-specimen-continuity", "name": "Action eligibility and specimen continuity", "description": "Resolve action constraints and preserve identity when a fish becomes a sample or derived product.", "findings": [ { "id": "retention-release-or-sampling-basis", "name": "Retention, release or sampling basis", "description": "Evaluate a specific proposed action against current external rules and the individual's measured state.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current jurisdiction, fishery category, permit and dated rule source govern the proposed action at this location?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "retention-release-or-sampling-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Do the measured length convention, identification confidence and applicable restrictions support the action, or leave eligibility unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "retention-release-or-sampling-basis-q02" } ] }, { "id": "sample-and-product-handoff", "name": "Sample and product handoff", "description": "Preserve the originating fish's identity when tissue, ageing material or a seafood product becomes a separately modelled entity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What identification evidence and specimen link will remain after sampling, dissection or processing?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sample-and-product-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "At what transformation does the receiving sample or seafood model assume responsibility for the derived entity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sample-and-product-handoff-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "North Sea haddock (ICES Subarea 4 and adjacent units)", "North-East Arctic / Barents Sea haddock", "Icelandic haddock", "Georges Bank haddock", "Gulf of Maine haddock", "Fresh or chilled whole fish and fillets", "Finnan haddie and other cold-smoked haddock (dyed or undyed)", "Arbroath smokie (hot-smoked, headed and gutted)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of haddock this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Scientific name (Linnaean)", "value_or_pattern": "Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758)", "note": "Monotypic genus; this is the only haddock in commercial or scientific use." }, { "scheme": "FAO ASFIS 3-alpha code", "value_or_pattern": "HAD", "note": "Standard fishery-statistics code for this species." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System (HS)", "value_or_pattern": "0302.51 (fresh/chilled); 0303.63 (frozen); 0304.72 (frozen fillets)", "note": "Headings name Melanogrammus aeglefinus explicitly; later national tariff lines may add further splits." }, { "scheme": "ITIS TSN", "value_or_pattern": "164744", "note": "Taxonomic Serial Number for Melanogrammus aeglefinus." }, { "scheme": "WoRMS AphiaID", "value_or_pattern": "126437", "note": "Marine taxon identifier for the accepted species." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "taxon item labelled Melanogrammus aeglefinus", "note": "Use the species taxon item; numeric QID not re-verified in this pass." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of haddock this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ICES advice plus coastal-state TACs and effort rules (EU Common Fisheries Policy, United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Faroes, NEAFC) for North-East Atlantic stocks", "Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, implemented through the New England Fishery Management Council Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan, for Georges Bank and Gulf of Maine haddock", "Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products: commercial designation plus scientific name on the label", "Codex Alimentarius CAC/RCP 52, Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Products (FAO/WHO), for hygiene and processing of whitefish", "FDA Fish and Fishery Products Hazards and Controls Guidance (U.S.) for parasite, allergen, and smoked-fish controls", "Arbroath Smokies as a protected geographical indication (originally EU PGI; now also on the United Kingdom GI register)", "MSC Fisheries Standard, applied to several certified haddock fisheries (notably Barents Sea and Icelandic units)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of haddock this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Landed from otter-trawl, seine, and longline mixed-gadoid fisheries and sold as fresh or frozen fillets, loins, and blocks", "Staple of fish-and-chip shops in Scotland and northern England, where it often outsells cod", "Cold-smoked as finnan haddie for breakfast, chowder, and Cullen skink; supermarket smoked fillets are frequently annatto-dyed yellow", "Hot-smoked as Arbroath smokies (headed, gutted, tied in pairs)", "Bait and recreational catch on North Atlantic grounds; frames and offal go to fishmeal and pet food" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of haddock this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Total length of commercially landed fish", "typical_range": "35-70 (maximum near 110)", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Whole-fish mass, typical landings", "typical_range": "0.9-2.5 (exceptional fish to about 16-19)", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "Usual capture depth", "typical_range": "40-200 (records to about 450)", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Preferred water temperature", "typical_range": "4-10", "unit": "°C" }, { "quantity": "Age at 50% maturity (stock-dependent)", "typical_range": "2-4", "unit": "years" }, { "quantity": "Muscle fat (lean whitefish)", "typical_range": "0.4-1.5", "unit": "g/100 g wet weight" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of haddock this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Stock collapse from mixed-groundfish overfishing, as on Georges Bank in the 1990s; recruitment remains highly variable even under TAC management", "Species substitution and mislabelling against cod, pollock, or cheaper whitefish", "Anisakis and other nematodes in muscle; inadequate freezing of raw or cold-smoked product leaves a parasite hazard", "Listeria monocytogenes growth in cold-smoked fillets", "Rapid spoilage of fresh gadoid flesh (trimethylamine, off-odours) if the cold chain breaks", "Fish allergen; bones as a choking hazard in fillets sold as boneless", "Climate-driven northward and deeper shifts that scramble historical stock boundaries and bycatch patterns" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of haddock this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "English haddock; French églefin/aiglefin; German Schellfisch; Norwegian hyse; Icelandic ýsa; all the same species", "In the United Kingdom, haddock dominates chip shops in Scotland and the north, while cod is more usual further south", "Finnan haddie is tied to Findon (Aberdeenshire) practice; Arbroath smokies are a named hot-smoked product of that town", "New England 'scrod' can mean small haddock or small cod, so the market name is not species-specific", "U.S. management splits Georges Bank from Gulf of Maine; ICES splits many more NE Atlantic units (North Sea, NE Arctic, Iceland, Faroes, Rockall, etc.)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of haddock this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)", "difference": "Haddock has a black lateral line and a dark 'thumbprint' blotch above the pectoral fin; cod has a pale lateral line, mottled flanks, and no scapular blotch." }, { "name": "Saithe / pollock (Pollachius virens)", "difference": "Saithe is uniformly darker, has a pale lateral line, and lacks the haddock scapular blotch; the lateral-line colour is the field split." }, { "name": "Whiting (Merlangius merlangus)", "difference": "Whiting is slimmer and paler, usually much smaller at the same age, and has no dark scapular blotch." }, { "name": "Norway haddock (Sebastes viviparus and related redfish)", "difference": "Despite the English name, this is a scorpaenid redfish (orange-red, spiny head), not a gadid; body colour and head spines separate it at a glance." }, { "name": "Hake (Merluccius spp.)", "difference": "Hake has a longer, sharper snout, large mouth with visible teeth, and no haddock blotch or black lateral line; it is a merlucciid, not a gadid of the cod-haddock type." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of haddock this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend haddock to denote the species and its individual organisms, and does an existing world model already own that scope?", "Which validated identification keys or molecular methods should govern eggs, larvae, damaged fish and specimens with atypical pigmentation?", "Which regional ageing, maturity and body-condition protocols are sufficiently comparable, and which require separate reference populations?", "Which haddock-specific studies support handling and release decisions across gear types, capture depths, temperatures and fish sizes?", "Which authoritative services should supply current stock boundaries and action restrictions, and how should decisions behave when those sources disagree or are unavailable?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 19, "questions": 34 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a haddock, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise haddock, assess an individual fish's biological state and context, and determine which observations or interventions are justified.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: haddock as food.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 64 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a haddock, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "haddock as food" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 64 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one haddock from another, and a haddock from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a haddock sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a haddock from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a haddock is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a haddock and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a haddock is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a haddock is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a haddock is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a haddock moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a haddock passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a haddock between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a haddock, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a haddock is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What haddock is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of haddock, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate haddock from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish haddock from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What haddock does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does haddock pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of haddock judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where haddock lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of haddock, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does haddock hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a haddock came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a haddock and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a haddock is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a haddock, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a haddock, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a haddock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }