This is still an issue. "Survey Ocean Wildlife" on the buoy doesn't clear the job task, and it really should. The only other option is to keep your Sim hanging around doing nothing for the entire Sim day, waiting for the survey option to become available on the coral, which sometimes it just doesn't before you're out of time and you get negative job performance and lose out on pay. Meanwhile your Sim is exhausted, hungry, and hasn't accomplished anything all day because you didn't want them to not be available to come survey if and when the option appeared.
Similar issue. There aren't any clickable coral, fish or turtles in Mua Pel'am at its current stage of restoration in my game, so the task is generally impossible to complete.
