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