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