I have been working on IDing as many pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus) observations as I can, and I was wondering if there is way to denote whether an organism is farm/hatchery raised or not? I think it’d be neat to denote that if possible but I’m unsure how. Thanks :)

Scroll down to the section “Data Quality Assessments” Under “Organism is wild” check “no”

Hatchery and farm raised organisms should still be marked as wild if they were encountered in the wild. Their origin is irrelevant to their wild status.

You can add them to my project Escapees from Captivity .

I’ve never seen a live salmon before in its natural habitat. I think it is impossible to tell the difference between farm raised salmons and wild salmons. The salmon stock for fry production comes from the wild. so the fish retains the same traits.

You should not do this as they are considered wild

"Checking captive / cultivated means that the observation is of an organism that exists in the time and place it was observed because humans intended it to be then and there. " To me, that would mean that a hatchery-raised fish should be marked as captive/cultivated, because it was intentionally re…

Site staff have made it clear on a number of occasions that escaped and released animals count as wild for iNat purposes.

If you observe them in the wild, true. If they are in the farm/hatchery that is the same as captive/cultivated.

If the salmon are at the hatchery, they are captive. If they’re in the river and moving where they want, they’re wild – even though people want them to do just that.

Hatchery fish mass-marking https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/management/hatcheries/mass-marking

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jasonhernandez74 June 24, 2024, 9:26pm 21

Surprisingly, there is as yet no observation field for this. You could create one.

EDIT: Actually, I found this one which may be relevant: Observation field: # fish with no adipose fin · iNaturalist

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