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.

Welcome to the Captain’s Seat

Sampling at sunrise never gets old

Lobster during a sea sample

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

Vice President, Hughie Boutilier, emptying a recruitment trap

FSRS information table at the 2016 Annual Conference

At-sea sampling with Brandon

Tangier, NS

Lobsters help with research too!

V-notching in Sober Island

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

This strange looking fish is a lumpfish!

Lobster posing for the camera

Crew member sampling cod during the sentinel survey

A crew member emptying a recruitment trap

Only the experienced dare near her when in operation

Fish on the sentinel survey

Lobster collector deployment in Lobster Bay, NS

Wine Harbour, NS

Hauling a trap during sea sampling

A calm morning at the wharf in Tangier, NS

Sunny sampling in Ecum Secum

Traps all ready to go!

Juvenile lobster caught in one of our recruitment traps

There’s beauty at all hours of the day

Early morning in Wine Harbour

Panelists from this year’s conference

2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside

FSRS Team!

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

Just wow!

Juvenile lobster

Processing lobster collectors in False Bay, Cape Breton

Marie Joseph

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

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

A recently-settled lobster from the collector study

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

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

Recruitment trap

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

V-notching a lobster in LFA 32

Another beautiful sampling day

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

A recently-settled lobster found during the collector study

Petit Passage, Digby, NS

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

2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside

The Ashley & Travis leaving for the sentinel survey

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

Fishermen getting ready to pull up traps during a sampling trip

We do more than lobster

Hours after our day even started

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