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