Check out the FSRS photo gallery to see examples of the research, communication, and sampling initiatives that have been, and are currently being, conducted. Be sure to check out the captions to learn more about who was involved and what is pictured.
Welcome to the Captain’s Seat
Vice President, Hughie Boutilier, emptying a recruitment trap
Hours after our day even started
A fisherman measuring a lobster with their scientific recruitment gauge
A recently-settled lobster from the collector study
Teamwork during a rainy v-notching day in Mushaboom, NS
FSRS information table at the 2016 Annual Conference
2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside
Fish on the sentinel survey
Sampling at sunrise never gets old
At-sea sampling with Brandon
We do more than lobster
Sampling with long-time Lobster Recruitment participant, Hugh MacDonald, and his cre
A calm morning at the wharf in Tangier, NS
Hauling a trap during sea sampling
Wine Harbour, NS
V-notching in Sober Island
A crew member emptying a recruitment trap
A lobster saying “hello” during sea sampling in Marie Joseph, NS
2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside
A bright morning for the first haul day on the Eastern Shore
Communications Committee member, Randy Baker, speaking to the public during the BIO Expo
Sunny sampling in Ecum Secum
Marie Joseph
Crew member sampling cod during the sentinel survey
Tangier, NS
Juvenile lobster
Lobster collector deployment in Lobster Bay, NS
The Ashley & Travis leaving for the sentinel survey
Another beautiful sampling day
This strange looking fish is a lumpfish!
Lobster during a sea sample
Communications Committee member, Randy Baker, teaching visitors about lobster physiology
Lobsters help with research too!
FSRS 2016 Staff and volunteers at the Annual Conference in Dartmouth, NS
Traps all ready to go!
Lobster posing for the camera
Panelists from this year’s conference
A recently-settled lobster found during the collector study
There’s beauty at all hours of the day
Just wow!
Liz holding a 1-year-old lobster caught in a lobster collector in False Bay, Cape Breton
Recruitment trap
Ange’s 2022 goal is to find a lobster even bigger than this beauty
Juvenile lobster caught in one of our recruitment traps
Petit Passage, Digby, NS
FSRS Team!
Only the experienced dare near her when in operation
Processing lobster collectors in False Bay, Cape Breton
V-notching a lobster in LFA 32
Early morning in Wine Harbour
Shannon, FSRS’s Director of Operations, interacting with eager young minds at the BIO Expo
Some young helpers during Eastern Shore V-notching in Sober Island
Fishermen getting ready to pull up traps during a sampling trip
Long time Lobster Recruitment participant, Randy Boutilier, and his crew on a sea-sampling day in Tangier, NS
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