I’m a little surprised that I’m not finding this question already asked. How should animals which were killed during hunting or fishing be annotated? I assume in the case of an observation of an animal which had already been dispatched before the photos were taken should be marked as dead, but what …

Annotations are for the observation itself, not any specific pictures, so it is possible that observations given the time and place when an organism was alive can include pictures taken later when the organism is dead. Such observations should be annotated as alive. If the date/time of your observa…

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lets-talk-annotations/627/139

In short, pictures should be annotated as they were when the photo was taken. If the fish is still alive in the photo, I’d mark it as alive.

How should harvested specimens be annotated?

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How should harvested specimens be annotated?

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