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