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