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