Gallery

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.

A bright morning for the first haul day on the Eastern Shore

Fish on the sentinel survey

At-sea sampling with Brandon

Panelists from this year’s conference

Only the experienced dare near her when in operation

Sampling at sunrise never gets old

Hauling a trap during sea sampling

2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside

Marie Joseph

This strange looking fish is a lumpfish!

Traps all ready to go!

Wine Harbour, NS

Tangier, NS

Some young helpers during Eastern Shore V-notching in Sober Island

Shannon, FSRS’s Director of Operations, interacting with eager young minds at the BIO Expo

FSRS Team!

Processing lobster collectors in False Bay, Cape Breton

A recently-settled lobster from the collector study

V-notching in Sober Island

There’s beauty at all hours of the day

Sunny sampling in Ecum Secum

Juvenile lobster

Teamwork during a rainy v-notching day in Mushaboom, NS

Fishermen getting ready to pull up traps during a sampling trip

2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside

A lobster saying “hello” during sea sampling in Marie Joseph, NS

Long time Lobster Recruitment participant, Randy Boutilier, and his crew on a sea-sampling day in Tangier, NS

Lobsters help with research too!

V-notching a lobster in LFA 32

Ange’s 2022 goal is to find a lobster even bigger than this beauty

FSRS information table at the 2016 Annual Conference

A crew member emptying a recruitment trap

A calm morning at the wharf in Tangier, NS

Crew member sampling cod during the sentinel survey

Communications Committee member, Randy Baker, speaking to the public during the BIO Expo

Early morning in Wine Harbour

Communications Committee member, Randy Baker, teaching visitors about lobster physiology

A fisherman measuring a lobster with their scientific recruitment gauge

Sampling with long-time Lobster Recruitment participant, Hugh MacDonald, and his cre

Another beautiful sampling day

Just wow!

Welcome to the Captain’s Seat

Petit Passage, Digby, NS

We do more than lobster

Recruitment trap

Lobster during a sea sample

A recently-settled lobster found during the collector study

The Ashley & Travis leaving for the sentinel survey

Lobster collector deployment in Lobster Bay, NS

Liz holding a 1-year-old lobster caught in a lobster collector in False Bay, Cape Breton

FSRS 2016 Staff and volunteers at the Annual Conference in Dartmouth, NS

Lobster posing for the camera

Hours after our day even started

Vice President, Hughie Boutilier, emptying a recruitment trap

Juvenile lobster caught in one of our recruitment traps