Who to contact for questions or possible errors on taxonomy?

[AdamWargon]

@onefishyboi You may be interested in this thread

@surrey-bc_biodiversity You will get direct answers to your question here, but the clip below is relevant IMO. I posted it just as much for myself to review.

@surrey-bc_biodiversity

Some of the IDs of these stocked fisheries are getting to research grade

The point of the clip is that the concept of “research grade” was kind of a placeholder, and it has gained more significance than was ever intended. It’s not a perfect concept, especially for a fisheries context where hatchery-raised fish are living in the wild.

You could compare it to recent discussions of taxonomy on the forum:

@paul_dennehy

“All models are wrong; some are useful.”

@AdamWargon

What is the value of research grade?

@mmmiller

There was a short discussion that touches on this in the iNat Webinar from 2024 Aug 29.

@loarie discussing the question ‘Are only “Research Grade” observations valuable for research?’

So right now we have captive cultivated tangled up In research grade. I know a lot of people have concerns about this and there’s a lot of, I’d say especially for places like New Zealand where scientists want to know even what’s in cultivation there because those have the potential in Island places like New Zealand or Hawaii where there’s the the threats from invasives are so big what escapes so there’s actually a ton of science that’s going on in New Zealand based on planted plants and things like that so that’s a good example where research grade doesn’t map to useful for science perfectly.

https://youtu.be/LGgOeRJIYCs?si=r-EXM9zCdqWoygyU&t=2946