https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/342617728 I bought a package of wakame which turned out to have a piece of what appears to be a different kind of seaweed in it. It’s currently marked “location inaccurate”. I checked mitoku.com and found that it could have been grown in Ise or Hokkaido, whi…

This is like the (sometimes interminable) discussions about ship-assisted bird records. My take is that the location of your interaction with the algae in the package would be the place of observation, but since this is a human-produced commercial product and so “derived”–i.e. removed from a natura…

as @gcwarbler already mentioned, mark the location as the location of your interaction with the organism. And then use the comments to give context.

Give the location as the place you bought it. Mark it as captive - the only reason it is there is because a human intended it to be there. This isn’t some organism that hitchhiked or snuck in under its own power, every single step of its journey was due to deliberate human action.

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raymie March 18, 2026, 12:31pm 5

No human intended it to be there, it accidentally got in the bag.

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Location of something found in packaged wakame

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