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