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.

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

There’s beauty at all hours of the day

Marie Joseph

Traps all ready to go!

A fisherman measuring a lobster with their scientific recruitment gauge

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

A calm morning at the wharf in Tangier, NS

This strange looking fish is a lumpfish!

Lobster posing for the camera

Vice President, Hughie Boutilier, emptying a recruitment trap

Just wow!

The Ashley & Travis leaving for the sentinel survey

Early morning in Wine Harbour

Welcome to the Captain’s Seat

Fish on the sentinel survey

FSRS Team!

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

Wine Harbour, NS

Lobster during a sea sample

A crew member emptying a recruitment trap

Sunny sampling in Ecum Secum

2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside

Lobsters help with research too!

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

Juvenile lobster

Panelists from this year’s conference

Tangier, NS

Sampling at sunrise never gets old

We do more than lobster

Fishermen getting ready to pull up traps during a sampling trip

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

Lobster collector deployment in Lobster Bay, NS

Juvenile lobster caught in one of our recruitment traps

V-notching a lobster in LFA 32

2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside

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

Crew member sampling cod during the sentinel survey

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

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

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

Hours after our day even started

At-sea sampling with Brandon

A recently-settled lobster from the collector study

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

A recently-settled lobster found during the collector study

Petit Passage, Digby, NS

FSRS information table at the 2016 Annual Conference

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

Recruitment trap

Only the experienced dare near her when in operation

V-notching in Sober Island

Hauling a trap during sea sampling

Another beautiful sampling day

Processing lobster collectors in False Bay, Cape Breton