Good Day! i have a question on my methodology design on my thesis. the general idea of the thesis is, acquiring a digital image of a fish and correlate generated transformation values which mine is Wavelet transformation to freshness and quality of the fish via Quality index method and total microbial count.
I would like to know if acquiring of the fish , that it has to be alive. While waiting for a day to day interval . should i kill the fish in the first day and see its preservation and deterioration process while in a iced cooler. then proceed onto the day to day interval methodology
OR
Acquire the fish, let the fish live for each day until the nth day. so i would be killing them one at a time and do the observations then.