  We provide results for the open-flavor strong decays of strange and
non-strange baryons into a baryon-vector/pseudoscalar meson pair. The decay
amplitudes are computed in the $^3P_0$ pair-creation model, where $s\bar{s}$
pair-creation suppression is included for the first time in the baryon sector,
in combination with the U(7) and hypercentral models. The effects of this
$s\bar{s}$ suppression mechanism cannot be re-absorbed in a redefinition of the
model parameters or in a different choice of the $^3P_0$ model vertex factor.
Our results for the decay amplitudes are compared with the existing
experimental data and previous $^3P_0$ and elementary meson emission model
calculations. In this respect, we show that distinct quark models differ in the
number of missing resonances they predict and also in the quantum numbers of
states. Therefore, future experimental results will be important in order to
disentangle different models of baryon structure. Finally, in the appendices,
we provide some details of our calculations, including the derivation of all
relevant flavor couplings with strangeness-suppression. This derivation may be
helpful to calculate the open-flavor decay amplitudes starting from other
models of baryons.
